From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea
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An artist for the Illustrated London News, Price sailed with a commercial mission establishing trade with Russian arctic ports on the Kara Sea (the mouth of the Yenisei River). He went up the river through Siberia all the way to Mongolia, and from there another four thousand miles to Shanghai. What he uncovered was basically the terrra incognita of Siberia was astonishing: thriving cities and towns that would be a credit to any developed nation. He was well aware of how surprising this was, went to great pains to describe every aspect of life there. Knowing how the Russian practice…