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Amazon.com Review The Russian explorer V. K. Arseniev received a hero's welcome when he returned to Moscow from the Far East in 1906, having mapped the unknown corner of Siberia just above what is now North Korea and just east of Manchuria. He could not have done this work alone, Arseniev protested, and the real hero was an indigene who befriended his party. Arseniev then wrote a remarkable memoir devoted to the Goldi trapper, Dersu, who saved his and his men's lives on more than one occasion while showing them the ways of the deep forest. An action-filled memoir of exploration and natural history, Arseniev's record of friendship with Dersu is one of the finest works of amateur ethnography. It is also the basis for Akira Kurosawa's prize-winning 1976 film Dersu Uzala. Read more From Publishers Weekly Arseniev, a Russian geographer, ethnographer and geologist who surveyed the Taiga, the vast forest region of eastern Siberia, on three separate occasions between 1902 and 1907, knew the real Dersu Azala for some 19 months. The Dersu that appears here, is actually a composite character, combining the real Dersu with myths about the primitive lifestyle and heroic deeds of 'noble savages' in the manner of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. All three expeditions described in this memoir entailed life-threatening danger from blizzards, rainstorms, lack of food, wild animals or hostile natives?and all ended with Dersu's instinctive knowledge saving the day. In a stock ending to the meeting of civilized and savage, Arseniev persuaded Dersu to come with him, but his friend could not adapt to restrictions of life indoors, preferring the rigors of is old nomadic existence to the spurious comforts of city life. Burdened by an awkward, outdated translation, this somewhat repetitive memoir still sustains interest as it recounts the adventures of two exceptional friends. Film buffs will also recognize it as the basis for Kurosawa's 1975 Oscar-winning movie, Dersu Azala. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more Review Arseniev...the great explorer of Eastern Siberia...opens up a world of which we have hitherto had very little information. -- Fritjof NansenDersu the Trapper tells the true story of a turn-of-the-century encounter between a Russian expeditionary officer and a nomadic member of the Gold tribe in the taiga region of eastern Siberia, above Vladivostok along the Sea of Japan. The story concerns three expeditions which were filled with discovery and hardship, and required remarkable courage to survive harsh conditions as well as encounters with bears, wild boards, tigers, bandits and brigands. Dersu the Trapper tells of the exceptional friendship that grew between these two men, and is a compelling description of a largely unknown wilderness and its inhabitants: Udehes, Chinese, Golds, and Old Believers. Vladimir Arseniev was not only a geographer, ethnographer, and geologist, but a bold and indefatigable traveller and a wonderfully precise writer. His twenty volumes occupy a unique position in Russian literature. Malcom Burr has provided an able and accessible translation making possible the writings of Arseniev available to an American audience. Highly recommended reading for any one interested true-life adventure, Russian literature, ethnography, anthropology, and the history of exploration. -- Midwest Book ReviewThe narrative is illuminated by a wealth of tiny pen-and-ink drawings, all good... -- William Beebe, Books[It] is a classic that will keep both Arseniev and Dersu alive in our hearts. -- Yale Review Read more
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