Thomas, Lucy and Alatau
The Atkinsons' Adventures in Siberia and the Kazakh Steppe
This is the first full biography of an unjustly forgotten man: Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799 - 1861), architect, artist, traveller extraordinaire, author - and bigamist. Famous in his lifetime as 'the Siberian traveller', he spent seven years travelling nearly 40,000 miles through the Urals, Kazakhstan and Siberia with special authorisation from the Tsar, producing 560 watercolour sketches - many published here for the first time - of the often dramatic scenery and exotic peoples. He kept a detailed daily journal, now extensively quoted for the first time with his descendants' cooperation.This is also the story of Lucy, his spirited and intrep…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-912690-37-4
- EAN: 9781912690374
- Produktnummer: 29517068
- Verlag: Unicorn Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 18'930 KB
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John Massey Stewart, noted for his own travels, is an authority on Russia and the former Soviet Union. As writer, lecturer, photographer and environmental activist, he has visited the USSR/Russia 30 times since 1960 and crossed the country twice. He has lectured and given academic papers on different aspects of past and present Russia in the UK, USA, France, Israel, Canada and Siberia, which he has visited eleven times. He co-founded with the Conservation Foundation the London Initiative on the Russian Environment and has been a Specialist Adviser to a House of Commons environmental enquiry and a delegate to the NATO Advanced Workshop on ecotourism at Siberia's Lake Baikal.
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