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Dersu Uzala
Author(s)
V. K. Arseniev
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject(s)
Travelogue
Publisher
McPherson
Publication date
October 1996
ISBN
978-0929701493
This article is about the book. For the 1975 Russian-Japanese movie directed by Akira Kurosawa, see Dersu Uzala (1975 film).
For the 1961 Russian movie, see Dersu Uzala (1961 film).
Dersu Uzala. Photo by V. Arsenyev
Dersu Uzala (Russian: ֧ ٧ѧݧ; 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.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Editions in Russian
3 English translations
4 Film adaptations
5 External links
[edit] 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. 1850C1908) 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.
[edit] Editions in Russian
֧ ٧ѧݧ. ܧӧ٧ ѧۧԧ ٧էѧ֧ݧӧ: ֧ - ߧڧاߧ ܧݧ (1997) . . ѧҧѧߧӧ (ed.) EAN 9785300010973 (English: Dersu Uzala. Taiga Publishing House: Terra Book Club) (1997) N. ya. Kabanov (ed.) EAN 9785300010973)
[edit] English translations
For more information about English and other language translations see [1] and [2].
With Dersu the Hunter: Adventures in the Taiga adapted by Anne Terry White
Pub: George Braziller] 1965, A Venture Book, New York. ISBN 0807603252
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
[edit] Film adaptations
1961 - Dersu Uzala (֧ ٧ѧݧ) Soviet Union, director Agasi Babayan [ԧѧ ѧҧѧ]
1975 - Dersu Uzala (֧ ٧ѧݧ) Soviet Union/Japan, director Akira Kurosawa
[edit] External links
http://www.dersuuzala.info/
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