A story of adventure and a geographer's expeditions. Not bad, but not exciting. Need better writing/translation. The reading would be different if John McPhee wrote or translated the story.Translated by Malcolm Burr. Published by McPherson & Company, 1996. Recovered Classics series. ISBN 0929701496.
Another edition is titled Dersu Uzala, translated by V. Shneerson, published by Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow. The two editions differ a lot in the first chapter, and I ended up reading Burr's, which looks like a better translation.
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