Dersu Uzala (book)

Dersu Uzala (book)
Dersu Uzala  
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Author(s) V. K. Arseniev
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) Travelogue
Publisher McPherson
Publication date October 1996
ISBN 978-0929701493
Dersu Uzala. Photo by V. Arsenyev

Dersu Uzala (Russian: Дерсу Узала; alternate U.S. titles: With Dersu the Hunter and Dersu the Trapper) is the title of a 1923 book by the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev.

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Plot

Arsenyev's book tells of his travels in the Ussuri basin in the Russian Far East. Dersu was the name of a Nanai hunter (who lived c. 1850–1908) who acted as a guide for Arsenyev's surveying crew from 1902 to 1907, and saved them from starvation and cold. Arsenyev portrays him as a great man, animist who sees animals and plants as equal to man. From 1907, Arsenyev invited Dersu to live in his house in Khabarovsk as Dersu's failing sight hampered his ability to live as a hunter. In the spring of 1908, Dersu bade farewell to Arsenyev and walked back to his home in the Primorsky Krai, where he was killed. According to Arsenyev's book, Dersu Uzala was murdered near the town of Korfovskiy and buried in an unmarked grave in the taiga.

Editions in Russian

  • Дерсу Узала. Сквозь тайгу Издательство: Терра - Книжный клуб (1997) Н. Е. Кабанова (ed.) EAN 9785300010973 (English: Dersu Uzala. Taiga Publishing House: Terra Book Club) (1997) N. ya. Kabanov (ed.) EAN 9785300010973)

English translations

For more information about English and other language translations see [1] and [2].

  • Dersu the Trapper translated by Malcolm Burr
    • Pub: Secker & Warburg, London 1939. First English edition.
    • Pub: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. New York: 1941. ISBN 0929701496 First American edition.
    • Pub: McPherson and others, 1996, 2001. ISBN 0929701496. Mass market paperback.
  • Dersu Uzala translated by Victor Shneerson
    • Pub: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, ca 1950
    • Pub: Raduga Moscow 1990, ISBN 5050028221
    • Pub: University Press of the Pacific 2004 ISBN 1410213471

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