A Journey to Inner Africa
Journal: Amherst College Press eBooks
Year: 2020

A lively spirit invincible, Always true to himself and everywhere, A lively flame, often without smoke, Burning in suffocating surroundings . . .Unabashedly championing truth, He battled vulgarity all life long. -Fedor TiutchevAs obscure today in Russia as he is abroad, Egor Petrovich Kovalevsky was well known to his 19 th -century contemporaries. 1 Explorer, diplomat, and author-his collected works total five volumes-