ON SLEDGE AND HORSEBACK TO OUTCAST SIBERIAN LEPERS.

Cambridge Rare Books

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Title: ON SLEDGE AND HORSEBACK TO OUTCAST SIBERIAN LEPERS.

Authors: Marsden, Kate.

Binding: Hardback

Publisher: Record

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Condition: VERY GOOD

SKU: 975457

Details: No date. Record. Hard Cover. Book- VG, gilt titles on front board & spine, gilt decoration on front board, bevelled edges, blue boards, front spine cracked. 9.5x6. 243pp. Tissue-guarded frontis, 25 b/w illus. In 1891 Kate Marsden (1859-1931), a nurse who was battle-hardened by caring for the wounded during the war between Russia and Turkey in 1878, undertook a gruelling ride across the wilds of Siberia to bring medical relief to Russian lepers, having learnt of the horrific conditions under which they lived. This is her account of what was one of the most difficult equestrian journeys of the nineteenth century.