Author: MARSDEN KATE
Title: On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers
Description: Phoenix Press, London. 2001. (ISBN: 1842123971) Card Cover , 21.5cm. Ill.: Introduction By Eric Newby. An extraordinary and very readable story of a formidable Victorian lade why was so moved by the plight of lepers that she undertook a marathon journey from 1890 to 1892 to leper colonies in Siberia. Having served as a nurse in Bulgaria during 1878 tending the casualties of the Russian-Turkish War, Kate Marsden saw at first-hand the horrors of leprosy and determined to plan a journey to the leper colonies of Yakutsk, 2000 miles across the wastes of Siberia. Very Good.

Keywords: Siberia, Lepers, Travel, Adventure, Kate Marsden, Russia, 1842123971 Introduction By Eric Newby


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