Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East; and authored some sixty works from the geographical; geological; botanical; and ethnographic data he amassed. Among these; Dersu the Trapper has earned a privileged place in Russian literature. In this Russian counterpart to The Journals of Lewis and Clark and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper; Arseniev combines the precise observations of a naturalist with an exciting narrative of real-life adventure. Arseniev describes three explorations in the Ussurian taiga along the Sea of Japan above Vladivostok; beginning with his first encounter of the solitary aboriginal hunter named Dersu; a member of the Gold tribe; who thereafter becomes his guide. Each expedition is beset with hardship and danger: through blizzard and flood and assorted deprivations; these two men forge an exceptional friendship in their mutual respect for the immense grandeur of the wilderness. But the bridges across language; race and culture also have limitations; and the incursion of civilization exacts its toll. Dersu the Trapper is at once a witnessing of Russia's last frontier and a poignant memoir of rare cross-cultural understanding. Originally published in 1941; this English translation is reprinted in its entirety now for the first time.
#78216 in Books Hendrickson Publishers 1980-09-01Format: UnabridgedOriginal language:GreekPDF # 1 9.56 x 1.80 x 6.36l; 2.63 #File Name: 0913573868800 pageswritings of early Jewish scholar Josephus
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