George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War. In 1870, Kennan became the first American to explore the highlands of Dagestan, a remote Muslim region of herders, silversmiths, carpet-weavers, and other craftsmen southeast of Chechnya, only a decade after Russia violently absorbed the region into its empire. He kept detailed journals of his adventures, which today form a small part of his voluminous archive in the Library of Congress. Frith Maier has combined the diaries with selected letters and Kennan’s published articles on the Caucasus to create a vivid narrative of his six-month odyssey. The journals have been organized into three parts. The first covers Kennan’s journey to the Caucasus, a significant feat in itself. The second chronicles his expedition across the main Caucasus Ridge with the Georgian nobleman Prince Jorjadze. In the final part, Kennan circles back through the lands of Chechnya to slip once again into the Dagestan highlands. Kennan’s remarkable curiosity and perception come through in this lively and accessible narrative, as does his humor at the challenges of his travels. In her introduction, Maier discusses Kennan’s illustrious career and his reliability as an observer, while providing background on the Caucasus to help clarify Kennan’s descriptions of daily life, religion, etiquette, customary law, and local government. In an Afterword, she retraces Kennan’s steps to find descendants of Prince Jorjadze and describes her work in coproducing, with filmmaker Christopher Allingham, a documentary inspired by Kennan’s Caucasus journey.

Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan

History

KENNAN, George

Europe

University of Washington Press

George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War.In 1870, Kennan became the first American to explore the highlands of Dagestan, a remote Muslim region of herders, silversmiths, carpet-weavers, and other craftsmen southeast of Chechnya, only a decade after Russia violently absorbed the region into its empire. He kept detailed journals of his adventures, which today form a small part of his voluminous archive in the Library of Congress. Frith Maier has combined the diaries with selected letters and Kennan's published articles on the Caucasus to create a vivid narrative of his six-month odyssey.The journals have been organized into three parts. The first covers Kennan's journey to the Caucasus, a significant feat in itself. The second chronicles his expedition across the main Caucasus Ridge with the Georgian nobleman Prince Jorjadze. In the final part, Kennan circles back through the lands of Chechnya to slip once again into the Dagestan highlands.Kennan's remarkable curiosity and perception come through in this lively and accessible narrative, as does his humor at the challenges of his travels.In her introduction, Maier discusses Kennan's illustrious career and his reliability as an observer, while providing background on the Caucasus to help clarify Kennan's descriptions of daily life, religion, etiquette, customary law, and local government. In an Afterword, she retraces Kennan's steps to find descendants of Prince Jorjadze and describes her work in coproducing, with filmmaker Christopher Allingham, a documentary inspired by Kennan's Caucasus journey.

Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan (Donald R Ellegood Intnl Pub xx)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

"Kennan's initial focus is specific: How did Russia and France agree in 1894 that in the event of even partial mobilization by the Triple Alliance they would immediately take hostile action against it? In answering this question he achieves nothing less than a masterful analysis of what was going wrong in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century and of what faults of vision had caused these wrongs."

The fateful alliance: France, Russia, and the coming of the First World War

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Pantheon Books

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Tent Life in Siberia: A New Account of an Old Undertaking

Travel

Asia

Ayer

Chicago and Alton Case: A Misunderstood Transaction

Reference

Ayer Co. Pub

In this volume, the author attacks William Ripleys's Railroads: Finance and Organization, (reprinted in this collection) for falsely accusing the Harriman syndicate of looting the Chicago & Alton Railroad.

Misrepresentation in Railroad Affaires

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Arno Pr

George F. Kennan, former United States ambassador to the Soviet Union and a leading authority on Soviet affairs, traces Soviet foreign policy from the moment of the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 to the involvement of Russia in the Second World War. Professor Kennan explores the political and personal motivations of the Soviet leaders, the nature of the policies they pursued, and the significance of their actions.

Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-41 (Anvil Books)

Van Nostrand

Tent Life in Siberia

Russia

Dover `

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1891 edition by the Century Co., New York.

Siberia and the Exile System: Volume 1

Legal Theory & Systems

Adamant Media Corporation

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Tent Life In Siberia: And Adventures Among The Koraks And Other Tribes In Kamtchatka And Northern Asia

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

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