Description

This book provides an overview of the location and quality of the mineral springs located in the mountainous region around Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia. The author, Joseph Rehmann (1779–1831), was a German medical doctor who lived in Russia around the turn of the 19th century. In 1805, Rehmann was part of a diplomatic mission sent by Tsar Alexander I to the Qing Court in Peking to seek an agreement with the Manchu rulers of China on expanding trade between Russia and China. Because of difficulties with protocol, the ...