Author: jonathanslaght

• Arsenyev in The New Yorker!

  My recent translation of Vladimir Arsenyev’s 1921 classic, Across the Ussuri Kray, has been receiving some great press in places like MongaBay, Russian Life, MinnPost, and most recently (and incredibly) in…

• By Chance: Food & Shelter

  The latest from my Scientific American blog, East of Siberia: North of Ternei, in the province of Primorye where I conduct most of my research, there are no hotels and no…

• Arsenyev in the Land

  My latest from Scientific American: Crossing a channel of the Serebryanka River, a place explored by Arsenyev in 1906. I feel a kinship with Vladimir Arsenyev, the Russian topographer who explored…