Děrsu Uzala
Děrsu Uzala: The hunter from the taiga
The famous adventure travelogue describes the expedition exploring the unexplored corners of the Russian Far East, undertaken by traveller and writer Vladimir Arsenyev in 1907. The book is mainly dedicated to the expedition's native guide, the golden hunter and tracker Děrsu of the Uzala family, who taught the expedition members about life in the taiga and many times protected them from danger.
The author introduces the reader to the wild nature of the Ussuri region and to the local peoples and their everyday life, customs and religious ideas. It tells about life in the taiga in a colourful and engaging way, where every misstep can mean death, where hunters don't kill animals for fun, but purely for sustenance, and where people help each other survive, without asking for anything in return.
The book has gone through many editions and has been translated into more than thirty languages. It was also inspired by the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. He made a film based on it, which won an Oscar in 1975.
Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev
Russian traveller, geographer, ethnographer, Far Eastern explorer and writer. He was born in St. Petersburg. In 1896 he graduated from the infantry school, served briefly in Poland, and from 1899 in the Far East. As an ethnographer, he participated in scientific expeditions there and became the author of dozens of studies on the region, not only ethnographic, but also geographical and natural history. From here he also mined prose, which is in fact reworked travel notes, interspersed with numerous observations.
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