About the book: 2016 / First published on the initiative of the Italian historian Renato Rizaliti in a separate edition of the memoirs of the brother of the famous biologist Ilya Mechnikov, Lev Ilyich Mechnikov (1838–1888), traveler, ethnographer, thinker, linguist, author of the epoch-making treatise “Civilization and the Great Historical Rivers”. The accounts, originally published as journal articles, are now brought together and equipped with scientific apparatus, providing unique first-hand evidence of the Risorgimento, the fateful period of Italian unification, from a participant in the “Expedition of the Thousand” against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Garibaldi's own memoirs about this legendary campaign are included as an appendix..