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IN this book Dr. Bergman describes several journeys which he and his wife took a few years ago in the interior of Kamchatka, when he was leade of a biological and ethnographical expedition sent by the Swedish Geographical Society. It is the best kind of travel book, with no tedious details of daily routine, but enough incidents of travel to illustrate the customs and habits of the people and the difficulties of the road. There is also much original matter in the account of visits paid to the Lamuts and Koryaks in the remoter parts of the peninsula, and to the degenerate and disappearing Kamchadals. The book is useful as giving a full and readable account of a part of Asia which is little known and seldom visited except by trappers and fur dealers. The maps and illustrations add to its value. Fuller accounts of the results of the expedition are now being published in Swedish scientific journals.
Through Kamchatka by Dog-Sled and Skis: a Vivid Description of Adventurous Journeys amongst the Interesting and Almost Unknown Peoples of the most inaccessible Parts of this remote Siberian Peninsula.
Dr.
Sten
Bergman
By. Translated from the Swedish by Frederic Whyte. Pp. 284 + 16 plates. (London: Seeley, Service and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 21s. net.
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Through Kamchatka by Dog-Sled and Skis: a Vivid Description of Adventurous Journeys amongst the Interesting and Almost Unknown Peoples of the most inaccessible Parts of this remote Siberian Peninsula . Nature 120, 401 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120401c0
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