267 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-258) and index.
Contents
Under starter's orders -- The way to Zagorsk -- The way to the Volga -- Over the river and into the trees -- How the railway came to be built -- The Urals -- Into Siberia -- The flowery steppe of Ishim -- Across the Barabinskaya Steppe -- The Chicago of Siberia -- The Taiga -- The Paris of Siberia -- A short trip to a sanatorium -- The way to Transbaikalia -- The Buryats -- In the land of the Buryats we laid down and died -- The far-flung fringes of the empire -- Amurkabel -- Night train to the great ocean.