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The Church of England clergyman Henry Lansdell (1841–1919) was an energetic traveller, both during his own leisure time and on behalf of the Irish Church Missions. He made many visits to Russia and central Asia, distributing bibles and tracts in the native languages of the many peoples he encountered, and focusing his attention especially on hospitals and prisons. He published this two-volume account in 1882, and it proved extremely popular (this second edition being prepared before the first was published), but attracted some criticism for its favourable treatment of the Russian government. The anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin was especially indignant at the accounts of Russian prisons: he alleged that Lansdell was either a dupe of propaganda or was deliberately distorting what he had seen. Volume 2 continues Lansdell's account of his travels, both to prison colonies and mines, and among the native peoples of the Russian Far East.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Through Siberia
• Author: Henry Lansdell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 466
• EAN: 9781108071239
• ISBN: 1108071236
• ID: 02487181
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 590 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. April 2014

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