Name: Travels From st Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration) (en Inglés)
Price: 50.07 EUR
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Author: Bell, John
ISBN: 9781108071086

portada Travels From st Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

John Bell

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

436

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.67 kg.

ISBN13

9781108071086

Categorías

Asia
Geografía histórica
Viajes y vacaciones

Travels From st Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration) (en Inglés)

John Bell (Autor) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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. Volume 2 takes up the story with the embassy's reception in Beijing, with accounts of the Chinese emperor and his court, and the return journey. It also includes the journal of Lorenz Lange (c.1690-1752), a Swede in Russian service who was an agent at the court of Beijing at the time of Bell's own mission, and short accounts of Bell's later visits to Derbent on the Caspian Sea, and to Constantinople. This is a delightful account of an area then hardly known in the west.