Travels in Kamtschatka, during the years 1787 and 1788, Volume 2

"Travels in Kamtschatka, during the years 1787 and 1788, Volume 2" by Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy Lesseps, is a chronicle of a late 18th-century expedition that plunges into the heart of Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula where one man’s journey becomes a story of survival, cultural discovery, and diplomatic tension amidst a backdrop of ice and unforgiving terrain; leaving Poustaretsk with soldiers and guides, the author braves icy paths fraught with peril, fights exhaustion and sickness, and forms relationships with the Koriacs and Tchoukchis tribes, thus painting a vivid picture of both the traveler’s endurance and the intricate balance between nature and human connection in a remote, challenging world.