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[[File:Dersu_Uzala.jpg|frame|The title character.]]
'''''Dersu Uzala''''' is a nonfiction book written by Vladimir Arsenyev, a Russian officer sent on a series of exploration missions in the Siberian Far East at the turn of the 20th century. The book is named after an indigenous nomadic hunter whom Arsenyev befriended, and whose life was one of primal symbiosis with the harsh environment.
The book was [[The Film of the Book|made into a movie]] on two occasions, the second and more famous adaptation being that of [[Akira Kurosawa]] in 1975.
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* [[Anvilicious]]: While starting in the tone of a pamphlet to the glory of the Tsar and the [[Mighty Whitey]] Golden Age of Travel, it slowly fades to a critique of a heartless and selfish modern world that will destroy the deep and highly spiritual relationship of the natives with their environment.
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* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: The man mostly ate what he shot and got everything else for furs, all his life. This shows.
* [[The Lost Woods]]: The primeval forest of eastern Siberia.
* [[Magical Native American|Magical Manchukuo Asian]]: Though actually of Nanai ascent, Dersu sometimes fits the role accordingly, seeing the interconnectedness of all things, living in complete harmony with the environment, performing some shamanic medicine and addressing to all living things as "men". By extension, he might fall in the [[Crying Indian]] trope as well. Usually for [[Humans Are
* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Averted. Arseniev repeatedly acknowledges how much he had
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: In 1922, when the furthest reaches of Siberia were finally annexed to the Soviet Union, Arseniev
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: Dersu generally is a loner, but he never risks having [[Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup]] and will accept orders from the leader of the expedition even against his advice.
* [[Nature Hero]]: Dersu is the quintessential wild mountain man, more at ease in the deepest wilderness than anywhere civilized. As such, he saves the lives of Arsenyev and his men on two occasions.
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