In search of a Siberian Klondike

by Washington B. Vanderlip, Homer B. Hulbert

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First edition

New York: The Century Co., 1903. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 2 , 315, 1 ; frontispiece and 47 plates; green pictorial cloth, t.e.g.; edges rubbed, contemporary gift inscription on free endpaper, text clean and sound, very good. An account of Vanderlip's survey along the Kamchatka peninsula. A couple decades later he would falsely represent himself as an agent of the United States to Lenin, in a bid for control over the territory. Given this, the drama of

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