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This immensely readable book is a mixture of adventure, extreme hardship and compassion as the author makes a 2000 mile journey along the Great Siberian Post Road. "More struggling and floundering through marshes and bogs, more pitch-dark forests, bear-alarms, and frightened horses, and then a terrific thunderstorm," she writes casually. Even though she had the support of Queen Victoria, the Empress of Russia and her Lady in Waiting, the Countess Tolstoy, not to mention a pastoral letter from Bishop Meletie of Yakutsk, nobody believed that anyone could make such a journey, least of all a woman! Kate Marsden became one of the first women to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Travel writing

• Full title: Riding through Siberia - A Mounted Medical Mission in 1891
• Author: Kate Marsden
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9781590481707
• ISBN: 1590481704
• ID: 04236957
• Publisher: Long Riders' Guild Press
• Weight: 330 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 129 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. January 2005

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