Travels in Siberia: Including Excursions Northwards, Down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and Southwards, to the Chinese Frontier.

Erman, Adolph

Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1848

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8vo. Hardcover. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1 pp. 495. Vol. 2 pp. 535. First UK Edition. In very good condition; professionally rebound in leather with gilt border on the cover; raised bands on spine, decorative design with gilt title on red label. Slight shelf-wear to the covers, with minor scuffs and marks. Edges are slightly bumped and faint cracking at the top of the spines. Labels on the spines are slightly torn. Marbled fore-edge and end-papers. Pages themselves are clean and unmarked with light foxing. Hints of cracking along inner hinges but binding nonetheless remains tight. However the rear board on volume 1 is starting to detach from the spine, though still remains firm and intact. Folding map frontispiece to the first volume, showing Erman's route. Adolph Erman was a physicist and traveler who embarked on a circumnavigation attempt in 1828, traveling from Berlin with the expedition of Christopher Hansteen as far as the Mongolian Border, before proceeding from Kyakhta alone after Hansteen turned back. He made it across the Sea of Okhotsk to Russia's south-eastern peninsula where at Petropavlovsk he joined Fedor Petrovich Litke and sailed to Tahiti, returning to Europe via South America. The Siberian portion of Erman's travels include finding the existence of a Siberian magnetic pole, and exploring the "life of the roaming Samoyede under the polar circle. in a climate which, at first view, seems hardly compatible with human existence" (Preface). Seller Inventory # 036495

Bibliographic Details

Title: Travels in Siberia: Including Excursions ...

Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London

Publication Date: 1848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition