{"product_id":"9781108071529","title":"Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia (Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 2 Volume Set)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Bell (1691-1780) trained as a physician, but preferred a life of travel and diplomacy. He entered the service of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, and had already taken part (as the expedition's doctor) in a government mission to Persia in 1715-18 when he was asked to join a further embassy to China. This two-volume work, published in 1763, describes both these journeys. The first part of Volume 1 contains an account of the Persian expedition, and the second a narrative of the journey across Siberia to the walls of Beijing. It includes fascinating anecdotes of the peoples encountered, and their environment, beliefs and customs, including a female Siberian shaman, the pet musk deer of an exiled Swedish general, and the interdependence of marmots and rhubarb (at this time a valuable medicinal drug). This is a delightful account of an area then hardly known in the west.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45413079941199,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1820.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9781108071529-1.jpg?v=1780448938","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781108071529","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}