Siberian Days an Engineer's Record of Travel and Adventure in the Wilds of Siberia by Noble Algernon (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photos, 9 x 5,75", blue cloth, 223pp with index, covers lightly rubbed, extremities bumped and with some wear, EX-LIBRARY with usual markings; still a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some flecking and small marks to boards. Some foxing. Previous owner's name scribbled out on front endpaper and on title page. ; 223, [1 (advertisements)] pages + frontispiece + 14 illustrations on 7 plate leaves. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 220 x 137mm. Contents: Travelling in Winter; Post-Stations; The Steppe Wind - Atbasar; Zimofkas - Winter Quarters; Change to Pack-Horses - Some Bird Life; A Khirgiz Feast - Reach the Claim; Successful Diplomacy - Vipers; Boring Problems - Success; Fishing Extraordinary; Start a Herd - Wolves Appear - A Khirgiz Hunt - Start to Prospect for Coal; Yarout - Prosperous Khirgiz; Prehistoric Remains - Signs of Coal; Influx of Russians - Complicates Food Question; Birds and Beasts - Experiments at Taming; Trouble with Khirgiz - Tea as a Pacifier; Golden-Eagles and Vultures - Copper Records; Bustard Shooting; The Steppe in Autumn and Winter; Fishing through Ice - Wolves; Wolf Drives - Wild Pig; Thieving and Brigandage; Securing Mining Claims - "Bad Lands."; I Undertake a New Job; Difficulty in St. Petersburg; The Journey - Death of Our Guide; Arrival - Preparations for Winter; Prospecting - Success! - Optimism of Youth!; Unwelcome Visitors; The Country and Game; Meet Example of Woeful Ignorance; An Adventure - Difficulties in Winter; Old Workings - A Queer Interview; Claim-Holders and Claims; Tomsk District - Yenesai River; Fruitless Prospecting - A Lost Opportunity; Lake Baikal District - Buddhists!; Rain! Rain! Rain!; A Technical Survey of Prospecting in Siberia. Illustrations: Outcrop of a Coal Seam, Russian Turkestan; Khirgiz and Camels, Southern Steppes; Khirgiz Nomads' Encampment, Sibera; The First Transport of Coal from Baikanour; Karsak Pai; Khirgiz Nomads Milking Sheep; Typical Scene between Amur River and Arctic Tundra; Cutting Up Meat for the Winter, Siberia; Siberian Settlers; Chinamen Washing Gravel for Gold; Sinking a Shaft for Gold, E. Siberia; Country North of Lake Baikal; Mineral Outcrops North of Lake Baikal; Mineral Outcrop, E. Siberia; Washing for Gold, W. Siberia.

Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Ediion. Slight foxing at the beginning. Illustrated from photographs. Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. 223; photo. illusts.; very good in original cloth, gilt. The author conducted mining operations and prospected for gold and other deposits in central and eastern Siberia, north of Lake Baikal. His recollections include details of hunting experiences, mostly for wolves, boars, deer and wapiti in the Amur river region.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. H.F. & G. Witherby, London, 1928. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 5.75" x 8.75". Green cloth. 223 pp. The author was a mining engineer, and made trips to central and eastern Siberia to develop copper and coal mines in Siberia, and also to prospect for gold. ".chapters on hunting wolves, wild boars, deer and wapiti." (Czech). There is a chapter on angling with a light trout rod for 5 lb. golden carp, nelma, harius, pike, "a fresh-water shark called the somme and weighed nearly fifty pounds", and one on bustard (jerboa) shooting. Very good.