The Monster in the Corner of the Map: Russian Visitors Describe Nature on Sakhalin Island (1850-1905)

• Published in: Environment and History
• Main Author: Corrado, Sharyl
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: White Horse Press 2020
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Environmental Science (miscellaneous); History; Geography, Planning and Development; Penal; Sakhalin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734019x15463432086900; https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/eh/2020/00000026/00000004/art00004

This article examines evolving constructions of nature on Sakhalin Island in late imperial Russia, emphasising changing Russian views of not only the island, but of science, modernisation, mankind's power over nature and the borders of the empire. From a European land of plenty in the 1850s, we...