Trailblazers

📒 The stories in the present volume, FOR YOU, RUSSIA and A NORTHERN SAGA, were first published in Russian in 1968, shortly before the author's 60th birthday. They deal with the lives of two dedicated Russian geographers and travellers of the last century, Pyotr Semenov of the Tien Shans and Ivan Chersky. Men who differed widely in outlook and temperament, they had a similar strength of purpose and served their country selflessly.