Across the World. Travels across three parts of the Old World (gift edition)

The name of Alexander Vasilyevich Eliseev - a doctor, a traveler, a writer, a member of the employee of the imperial Russian geographical society - today is almost unknown to a wide reader circle. And once all those who were passionate about distant wanderings were literally read out by his books. Eliseev made his first expeditions in the northern and north-west part of European Russia, in Sweden, Norway and Finland. In 1881-1882 He took a great journey to Egypt, Palestine and Syria. In 1884 he traveled to Greece and Sicily, then there were Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Sahara. In 1886, he visited Asia Minor, where, on behalf of the Orthodox Palestinian society, he investigated the Holy Land. In all his travels, Eliseev kept detailed diaries, which later formed the basis of the books published by him. These books have not lost their significance today, because they contain truly unique information on geography, ethnography, archeology, medicine of the places where the author had to visit