A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental notices of Manchooria, Kamschatka, and Japan

by Perry McDonough Collins

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First edition

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860. First edition, 8vo, pp. 4 , 390, 2 ads; 4 lithograph plates the frontispiece spotted ; original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine darkened; all else very good, sound, and clean. Perry McDonough Collins 1813-1900 was the visionary behind the Russian-American Telegraph of 1865–1867. The failed venture aimed to connect America to Europe by telegraph via the Bering Strait. He was the first American to journey

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