Zadornov Distant Land

 

The famous Siberian writer Nikolai Zadornov created his legendary cycle of four novels about the pioneer captain Gennady Nevelskoy for more than twenty years. The novel "Distant Land" consists of two stories and tells about the difficult and dangerous life... of the aborigines of Priamurye. Peace-loving Gilyaks and Samars, hunters and fishermen, are forced to constantly defend their freedom from the encroachments of cruel and greedy neighbors - the Manchus and Chinese. And now there is a new trouble - Jesuit missionaries attempting to impose foreign and incomprehensible laws and orders on the taiga dwellers. And perhaps the one who is primarily concerned would not have to fend off numerous enemies if the Loche came to their aid - Russian Cossacks and settlers...