kennan, george

"After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day. In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man's harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history's most heinous human rights abuses"--.

In the 1860's the Russian-American Telegraph Co. set out to connect the United States and Europe using lines running through the Bering Strait and Siberia. The expedition failed. But it marked one of the first explorations of the vast Siberian wilderness.