WITH DERSU THE HUNTER. Adventures in the Taiga.
New York: George Braziller, 1965. 1st edition. Hardcover. 1st adaptation edition, 1965. A Good book in a Good- dust jacket. 8vo., 212 pp., bound in publishers tan cloth with illustrated dust jacket, $3.50. Jacket spine faded, chipping along tips & edges, some minor overall soiling. Text edges spotted. Previous owners name on front jacket cover as well as inside front cover with bookplate. Otherwise text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Good / Good-. Item #36446
Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev, FRGS (10 September 1872 – 4 September 1930) was a Russian explorer of the Far East who recounted his travels in a series of books— "Along the Ussuri land," 1921) and Dersu Uzala—telling of his military journeys to the Ussuri basin with Dersu Uzala, a native hunter, from 1902 to 1907.
He was the first to describe numerous species of Siberian flora and the lifestyles of the local ethnic groups.
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