2014, ISBN: 110807152X

[EAN: 9781108071529], Neubuch, [PU: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom], Language: English. Brand new Book. John Bell (1691-1780) trained as a physician, but preferred a life of t… More...

[EAN: 9781108071529], Neubuch, [PU: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom], Language: English. Brand new Book. John Bell (1691-1780) trained as a physician, but preferred a life of travel and diplomacy. He entered the service of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, and had already taken part (as the expedition's doctor) in a government mission to Persia in 1715-18 when he was asked to join a further embassy to China. This two-volume work, published in 1763, describes both these journeys. The first part of Volume 1 contains an account of the Persian expedition, and the second a narrative of the journey across Siberia to the walls of Beijing. It includes fascinating anecdotes of the peoples encountered, and their environment, beliefs and customs, including a female Siberian shaman, the pet musk deer of an exiled Swedish general, and the interdependence of marmots and rhubarb (at this time a valuable medicinal drug). This is a delightful account of an area then hardly known in the west., Books<

ISBN: 9781108071529

John Bell (1691–1780) trained as a physician, but preferred a life of travel and diplomacy. He entered the service of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, and had already taken part (as … More...

John Bell (1691–1780) trained as a physician, but preferred a life of travel and diplomacy. He entered the service of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, and had already taken part (as the expedition's doctor) in a government mission to Persia in 1715–18 when he was asked to join a further embassy to China. This two-volume work, published in 1763, describes both these journeys. The first part of Volume 1 contains an account of the Persian expedition, and the second a narrative of the journey across Siberia to the walls of Beijing. It includes fascinating anecdotes of the peoples encountered, and their environment, beliefs and customs, including a female Siberian shaman, the pet musk deer of an exiled Swedish general, and the interdependence of marmots and rhubarb (at this time a valuable medicinal drug). This is a delightful account of an area then hardly known in the west. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>World History>World Hist>World History, Cambridge University Press Core >1<

2014, ISBN: 9781108071529

Cambridge Univ Pr, 2014. Paperback. New. 388 pages. 8.30x5.50x0.90 inches., Cambridge Univ Pr, 2014, 6

ISBN: 9781108071529

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