Chapter 2
1 Epigraph: Chehkov, p. 41.
2 “The area around these harbors”: Khisamutdinov, pp. 133–34.
3 “There are several kinds”: James, p. 545.
4 “If you stand with us”: Personal communication, March 3, 2007.
5 “Manchurian and Sakhalin-Hokkaido Provinces”: A.L.
Takhtadzhian, ed. Problemy paleobotaniki: sb. nauch. tr. [“Problems
of Paleobotanists: A Collection of Scientific Works”]. Leningrad:
Nauka, Leningr. otd-nie, 1986.
6 “The general appearance of the tiger”: Heptner, p. 98.
7 “Now I felt afraid of nothing”: Arseniev, p. 100.
8 “The prohibition on shooting”: Ibid., p. 335.
9 “My ... landmarks had vanished”: Ibid., p. 340.
10 “Arseniev had the good sense not to live to be old”: Ibid., p. viii.
11 the total elapsed time: Khisamutdinov, p. 91.
