Siberian Journey: Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856–1857Perry McDonough Collins was the first American to journey through Siberia and down the 2,690-mile Amur River to the Pacific Ocean. In 1860 he wrote A Voyage Down the Amoor, an account of his adventures, and his book proved so popular that it was reissued in 1864. Siberian Journey consists of Collins’s original text framed by an interpretive introduction and explanatory notes by Charles Vevier, providing an extensive, first-hand account of Russia’s land and its people in the mid–nineteenth century. |
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Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856–1857 Perry McDonough Collins Charles Vevier. Introduction In 1860 , Perry McDonough ... ocean whose opposite waves washed the shores of my own country , and upon whose bosom I could float to my home ...
Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856–1857 Perry McDonough Collins Charles Vevier. Introduction In 1860 , Perry McDonough ... ocean whose opposite waves washed the shores of my own country , and upon whose bosom I could float to my home ...
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... Pacific Ocean . While the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers ex- plored the American West for satisfactory Pacific railroad routes , American scientists and naval officers explored and surveyed the Pacific Ocean and the waters of ...
... Pacific Ocean . While the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers ex- plored the American West for satisfactory Pacific railroad routes , American scientists and naval officers explored and surveyed the Pacific Ocean and the waters of ...
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Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856–1857 Perry McDonough Collins Charles Vevier. seven cases listed on the court docket ... Pacific Ocean - California . ” Obviously such a 9 6 District Court Docket A , Tuolumne County , California ; Sonora ...
Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856–1857 Perry McDonough Collins Charles Vevier. seven cases listed on the court docket ... Pacific Ocean - California . ” Obviously such a 9 6 District Court Docket A , Tuolumne County , California ; Sonora ...
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... Pacific coast , Northern China , Sakhalin , and Japan . Spurred by the drive and ambition of Nikolai Muravev , the Russians had been at work reformulating and implementing a " large policy " of expansion into Eastern Asia and the Pacific ...
... Pacific coast , Northern China , Sakhalin , and Japan . Spurred by the drive and ambition of Nikolai Muravev , the Russians had been at work reformulating and implementing a " large policy " of expansion into Eastern Asia and the Pacific ...
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... Pacific Ocean , would soon take pre- cedence over all other naval powers there , and would require the 23 Ibid . , pp . 140 , 164 ff , 189 ; Lensen , Russian Push Toward Japan , pp . 261 ff ; Robert J. Kerner , " The Importance of ...
... Pacific Ocean , would soon take pre- cedence over all other naval powers there , and would require the 23 Ibid . , pp . 140 , 164 ff , 189 ; Lensen , Russian Push Toward Japan , pp . 261 ff ; Robert J. Kerner , " The Importance of ...
Contents
XXIX On the River | 208 |
XXX A Mangoon Camp | 211 |
XXXI Manchoo Visitors | 215 |
XXXII A Manchoo GuardBoat | 218 |
XXXIII Arrival at Igoon | 222 |
XXXIV Manchoo Spies | 229 |
XXXV A Manchoo Village | 234 |
XXXVI A Tartar Beauty | 239 |
V From Ekaterinburg to Omsk | 72 |
VI From Omsk to Irkutsk | 78 |
VII Irkutsk | 86 |
VIII From Irkutsk to Kyachta | 91 |
IX Kyachta MaiMatTschin and the Feast of Lanterns | 100 |
X A Russian Dinner | 110 |
XI From Irkutsk to Petrovskey | 119 |
XII From Petrovskey to VerchneUdinsk | 122 |
XIII From VerchneUdinsk to Chetah | 125 |
XIV A Visit to the Mines of Nerchinsk | 135 |
XV The Silver Mines of Zarentunskie | 141 |
XVI The Cossacks of the Argoon | 146 |
XVII The Gold Mines of the Onon | 149 |
XVIII Passage of Mount Bornorskoy | 154 |
XIX Residence at Chetah | 159 |
XX A WildGoose Chase | 166 |
XXIDeparture from Chetah | 171 |
XXII Down the Ingodah | 175 |
XXIII A Mineral Spring | 184 |
XXIV From Bankin to Schilkah | 187 |
XXV From Schilkah to OuseCherney | 192 |
XXVI From Russian into Chinese Waters | 196 |
XXVII First View of the Amoor | 199 |
XXVIII From OuseStrelkah to Albasin | 203 |
XXXVII Manchoo Junks | 243 |
XXXVIII The Songahree | 246 |
XXXIX Russian Progress | 250 |
XL Floating Along | 254 |
XLI The Navigation | 260 |
XLII Native Villages | 265 |
XLIII The Hongahree | 270 |
XLIV A Goldee Village | 274 |
XLV Female Sailors | 279 |
XLVI A Night of Danger | 282 |
XLVII Ancient Monuments | 286 |
XLVIII Arrival at Nikolaivsky | 294 |
XLIXNikolaivsky | 298 |
L American Residents | 302 |
LI Character of the Amoor Country | 306 |
LII Natives on the Amoor | 313 |
LIII Trade and Resources of Siberia | 321 |
LIV Voyage to Japan | 327 |
LV Hakodadi | 334 |
LVI To Kamschatka | 339 |
LVII Stay at Petropaulosky | 347 |
A Note on the Sources | 357 |
Index | 363 |
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35 Cong agreeable American Amoor River Amur Argoon Asia Baikal bank Bankin barge beach beautiful boat California Captain Fulyhelm Cass Castries Chetah China Chinese chute coast Collins commerce Cossacks dinner distance east Ekaterinburg feet fish frozen Gelack Goldee Gourieff governor head horses Igoon Ingodah Irkutsk island Japan journey Kamschatka Korsackoff Kyachta lake Lake Baikal land Lewis Cass look Mai-mat-tschin Manchoo merchants Mongol Mongolia Moscow mountains Mouravieff mouth Muravev natives navigation Nerchinsk night Nikolaivsky northern oars Ocean officers opposite Ousuree overland Pacific Pacific Ocean passed Pekin Petersburg Peyton pleasant railroad reached right shore road Russian Russian-American Company sail Sak-hah-lin Schilkah sess Siberia side sleigh snow Songahree soon station steamer Straits of Tartary stream tarantass Tartar telyaga Thermometer thousand timber tion town trade Tuolumne County United village voyage wind winter