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STRUYS (Jean).Livre Rare Book

Voyages de Jean Struys en Russie, en Perse et aux Indes, mis dans un meilleur ordre, et réduits aux faits les plus intéressans.

Russia Lankenau H. & von OelnitzABAA

Russia Past and Present. Adapted from the German by Henrietta M. Chester

188121931London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1881. First Edition in English. With map and Illustration. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern quarter black morocco and boards. Very Good. First Edition in English. With map and Illustration. 1 vols. 8vo. George Kennan's Copy. Signed by the elder George Kennan on endpaper in blue pencil. A great Russian-American Association George Kennan February 16 1845 - 1924 was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of Russia. He was diplomat and historian George F. Kennan's cousin twice removed with whom he shared his birthday. Kennan was born in Norwalk Ohio and was keenly interested in travel from an early age. Family finances however meant he began work at the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company telegraph office aged twelve. In 1864 he secured employment with the Russian American Telegraph Company to survey a route for a proposed overland telegraph line through Siberia and across the Bering Strait. Having spent two years in the wilds of Kamchatka he returned to Ohio via St. Petersburg and soon became well-known through his lectures articles and book about his travels. In 1870 he returned to St. Petersburg and travelled to Dagestan a northern area of the Caucasus region taken over by Russia only ten years previously. There he became the first American to explore its highlands a remote Muslim region of herders silversmiths carpet-weavers and other craftsmen. He travelled on through the northern Caucasus area stopping in Samashki and Grozny before returning once more to America in 1871. In 1878 he became an Associated Press reporter based in Washington D.C. George Kennan February 16 1845 - 1924 was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of Russia. He was diplomat and historian George F. Kennan's cousin twice removed with whom he shared his birthday. Kennan was born in Norwalk Ohio and was keenly interested in travel from an early age. Family finances however meant he began work at the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company telegraph office aged twelve. In 1864 he secured employment with the Russian American Telegraph Company to survey a route for a proposed overland telegraph line through Siberia and across the Bering Strait. Having spent two years in the wilds of Kamchatka he returned to Ohio via St. Petersburg and soon became well-known through his lectures articles and book about his travels. In 1870 he returned to St. Petersburg and travelled to Dagestan a northern area of the Caucasus region taken over by Russia only ten years previously. There he became the first American to explore its highlands a remote Muslim region of herders silversmiths carpet-weavers and other craftsmen. He travelled on through the northern Caucasus area stopping in Samashki and Grozny before returning once more to America in 1871. In 1878 he became an Associated Press reporter based in Washington D.C. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge unknown books

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