This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... the volga basin The Great River--Kasan, Tsaritzin--Astrakhan antonio gallenga it is hardly possible to travel on the Volga without falling in love with the great river at first sight. The range of low hills which we had on our right as we descended the Oka continued now on the same side as we came ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... the volga basin The Great River--Kasan, Tsaritzin--Astrakhan antonio gallenga it is hardly possible to travel on the Volga without falling in love with the great river at first sight. The range of low hills which we had on our right as we descended the Oka continued now on the same side as we came down the Volga. The Volga, however, has nothing of the wild, erratic instincts of its tributary. It is a grand, calm, dignified stream, keeping to its course as a respectable matron, and gliding down in placid loveliness, without weir or leap, fall or rapids, or break of any kind--a fine, broad, almost unrippled sheet of water, with an even, steady, and grandly monotonous flow, like that of the stanzas of Tasso. Its width, so far as eye can judge, does not greatly exceed that of the Thames at Gravesend, but it is always the same from the bridge at Twer above Moscow to the only other bridge, one mile in length, between Syzran and Samara; everywhere the same " full bumper" for a run of 2,000 English miles. Though the Volga is numbered among the European rivers, and has its sources on the Valdai hills between the European cities, St. Petersburg and Moscow, it is a frontier stream, and seemed intended to form the natural line of demarcation between two parts of the world--between two worlds. Up to the middle of the Sixteenth Century, Kasan was the advanced guard of the Tartar hordes. These wandering tribes, which, profiting by dissensions among the Russian princes, overcame and overran all Russia, weakened in their turn by division, fell back from the main part of the invaded territory, but still held for some time their own on the Volga, from Kasan to Astrakhan, till they were utterly routed and brought under Russian sway by Ivan the Terrible....
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Very Good. First edition. Very good. Hardcover, rubbed at spine ends and corners, gold stamping on front cover and spine, clean text but name is on front endpaper.
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Very Good. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1904. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. dark blue cloth covers with gold gilt design on cover and spine, clean text, solid binding, light shelf wear to covers blind stamp and name in pencil on inside page. Very well-preserved for its age. This book is one of a series of thirteen different cities and countries described by famous writers and edited by Esther Singleton. History of Russia and Russia as seen by the great writers. Rare/History.
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