The Man Who Loved Siberia

Roy Jacobsen, Anneliese Pitz, Sean Kinsella

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MacLehose Press
09 January 2024

Biography: historical, political & military; Hunting or shooting animals & game

Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land.

Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers, explored remote islands and crossed treacherous lakes of ice, always with one purpose: to augment man's knowledge of the natural world.

Bears, tigers, vipers, bandits, stormy seas, frostbite, ice chasms fathoms deep - every danger was faced head on and overcome. And yet he remained defenceless against the charms of the landscape, and the animals, birds and butterflies he found there.

Through his twenty-two years in Siberia, Dorries collected a wealth of essential material for scientific institutions, fundamental to our understanding of fauna and flora. This account of his adventures, set down for his daughters in his ninetieth year, and adapted for publication by Roy Jacobsen and Anneliese Pitz, is his second great legacy.

Translated from the Norwegian by Sean Kinsella

By: Roy Jacobsen, Anneliese Pitz
Translated by: Sean Kinsella
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781529413038
ISBN 10: 1529413036
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 09 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roy Jacobsen is one of Norway's most internationally renowned writers. His novel The Unseen, a phenomenal bestseller in his own country, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017 Anneliese Pitz came to Norway from Belgium in 1974. She has a PhD in linguistics from Trondheim, has been teaching for 24 years at Oslo University.

Reviews for The Man Who Loved Siberia

A captivating and fascinating tale from The Wild East that Siberia once was. Pitz and Jacobsen bring Dörries' strenuous adventures to life in beautiful prose. This book is a true gem that deserves many readers -- Erika Fatland A captivating tale from a long-lost world -- Anna Reid Both a thrilling adventure story and a lyrical record of wild nature, this is a unique portrait of frontier life and attitudes in Siberia and the Russian Far East at a time when few foreigners had penetrated the region so deeply. Dorries' real-life tales, from the hair-raising to the transcendent, match anything from the American West -- Tom Parfitt, author of High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland A captivating and fascinating tale from The Wild East that Siberia once was. Pitz and Jacobsen bring Dörries' strenuous adventures to life in beautiful prose. This book is a true gem that deserves many readers -- Erika Fatland