Item #22757 A PEDESTRIAN JOURNEY THROUGH RUSSIA AND SIBERIAN TARTARY,TO THE FRONTIERS OF CHINA,THE FROZEN SEA AND KAMTCHATKA. John COCHRANE, Dundas.

A PEDESTRIAN JOURNEY THROUGH RUSSIA AND SIBERIAN TARTARY,TO THE FRONTIERS OF CHINA,THE FROZEN SEA AND KAMTCHATKA.

John Constable ,Edinburgh . 1929. Two Volumes .12 mo. pp.xxxiv + 326 .pp.vi + 262 . Large folding map .Chart shewing the route of Major Paulutzki round and through the Country of the Tchuktchi to correspond with the memoir of Captn Dundas Cochrane to the Royal Society. plus two portraits one of John Dundas Cochrane and the other of his wife.Original half leather and marbelled boards expertly underbacked, new spine ,raised bands ,decorated in gilt.Internally in very bright clean condition. Item #22757

Capt. John Dundas Cochrane R. N. (1780�1825), nicknamed the voyageur p�destre in France, was a Scottish traveller and explorer. A nephew of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, he crossed, on foot, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Russia and Asia to Kamchatka.

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