A Pedestrian Journey
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In one of the most audacious travel feats of the nineteenth century, Captain John Dundas Cochrane set out to walk across Europe and Asia — on foot — covering thousands of miles through Russia and Siberia in a journey that defied both geography and human endurance. A Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary chronicles his extraordinary expedition from 1820 to 1823, presenting vivid accounts of remote landscapes, indigenous peoples, and the harsh realities of traversing one of the world's most forbidding terrains armed with little more than determination and a naval officer's discipline. Cochrane writes with the keen, unsentimental eye of a man shaped by the sea, bringing the same rigour to land that he brought to naval service — his prose is brisk, observational, and alive with the curiosity of a genuine explorer. The narrative stands as a remarkable document of pre-industrial Siberia, illuminating a world largely invisible to Western eyes, and raises enduring questions about the limits of human ambition and the nature of adventure itself. What compels a man to walk to the edge of the known world? Cochrane's answer is written in every mile.
Author: John Cochrane
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, The Folio Society
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm.
In one of the most audacious travel feats of the nineteenth century, Captain John Dundas Cochrane set out to walk across Europe and Asia — on foot — covering thousands of miles through Russia and Siberia in a journey that defied both geography and human endurance. A Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary chronicles his extraordinary expedition from 1820 to 1823, presenting vivid accounts of remote landscapes, indigenous peoples, and the harsh realities of traversing one of the world's most forbidding terrains armed with little more than determination and a naval officer's discipline. Cochrane writes with the keen, unsentimental eye of a man shaped by the sea, bringing the same rigour to land that he brought to naval service — his prose is brisk, observational, and alive with the curiosity of a genuine explorer. The narrative stands as a remarkable document of pre-industrial Siberia, illuminating a world largely invisible to Western eyes, and raises enduring questions about the limits of human ambition and the nature of adventure itself. What compels a man to walk to the edge of the known world? Cochrane's answer is written in every mile.