Across the Ussuri Kray: Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains

by Vladimir K. Arsenyev

Book Overview

In Russia's Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and bears roam the cliffs, and salmon and lenok navigate the rivers. In this collection of travel writing by famed Russian explorer and naturalist Vladimir K. Arsenyev (1872-1930), readers are shuttled back to the turn of the 20th century when the Russian Empire was reeling from its defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253022150
• ISBN13: 9780253022158
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher