Tent Life in Siberia [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (April 27, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1461068053
• ISBN-13: 978-1461068051
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  

By : George Kennan
Price : $14.99

 

Tent Life in Siberia [Paperback]

 

Client Evaluations

i picked this book up from a homeless bookseller in manhattan for a dollar, figuring it could possibly be worth a try. and it was - i read the entire issue!
it really is main pluses: it really is written in a surprisingly modern style. i've read other travelogues of the time period, like melville's omoo and typee and others, and this one was FAR superior. maybe it's that the author is not pompous or attempting as well tough to be "literary." he tries a tiny bit, but mainly he just sticks to the facts and tells the story. and the story on its personal is fascinating adequate - travelling all about eastern siberia with wandering natives on dogsleds and reindeer sleds, living in yurts and consuming funky foods, starving at instances, camping beneath snowdrifts at fifty beneath zero, and largely just observing and interacting with native peoples who (i have a strange feelings) may possibly not even exist any far more. and all this set in the backdrop of such an exciting time period in our history - just following the U.S. Civil War.
other point of food for thought: the guy did his travels at AGE TWENTY!, and wrote and published the entire book by age 25! this strikes me as quite odd, mainly because his whole style is...so mature...and intellectual. you'd feel you're reading a book by a forty year old (at least). and to this that seven years before he travelled to siberia...he was just thirteen.
anyway, all in all a fantastic and intriguing book, fantastic in a way for light historical reading, but absolutely nothing to shock your boots off...

I stumbled across this book in the Santa Cruz Public Library in 1980 and it has consistently stuck with me.
Highly advised, commonly pretty funny.
Indeed this George Kennan is the good uncle of the cold-war diplomat of the similar name (I think), who passed away on this day at the age of 101.