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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $62, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSIB33)		  
Trans-Siberian Handbook  •  Bryn Thomas
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 512 PAGES
A compact guide and history of the Trans-Siberian, featuring maps and practical details for cities and sights from St. Petersburg to Irkutsk, Ulan Bator, Beijing and Vladivostok. With 50 maps and 30 color photos. Excerpts from the book and others in the British series are online at www.trailblazer-guides.com. (RUS73, $21.95)		   Trans-Siberian Handbook
In Siberia  •  Colin Thubron
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES • FAVORITE
One of our favorite writers, Thubron captures in dazzling prose the contradictions, beauty, personality and hardship of this huge land. Thubron journeyed 15,000 miles along the Trans-Siberian Railway, up the Yenisei River to the Arctic, into the mountains abutting Mongolia, to Lake Baikal -- the world's oldest and deepest lake -- and east to Magadan and the Pacific. (SIB14, $14.99)		   In Siberia
Dersu the Trapper  •  V.K. Arseniev  •  Malcolm Burr
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 358 PAGES • FAVORITE
A mesmerizing account of adventure, exploration and friendship in the Russian Far East. A Russian captain who explored much of the region north of Vladivostok at the turn of the 20th century, Arseniev forged a friendship with the taciturn Dersu, a nomadic Goldi hunter. The book was the source for Kurosowa's magnificent 1976 film, Dersu Uzala. (SIB24, $16.00)		   Dersu the Trapper
Russia Map  •  International Travel Maps
2011 •  MAP
This double-sided map at a scale of 1:6,000,000 shows Russia and the former republics of the Soviet Union as far as the Yenisey river on one side with the remainder of Eastern Russia on the reverse. With relief shading, roads and railways. Place names are Romanized (no Cyrillic). Two Sides. 38x31 inches. (RUS264, $12.95)		   Russia Map



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Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway  •  Simon Richmond   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guide to the railway and, especially, stops en route from Vladivostok to Moscow it in the hallmark Lonely Planet style. With 35 sketch maps covering routes and major cities, a section of color-photos, and a brief language guide. (SIB26, $20.99)
 		  
A History of the Peoples of Siberia, Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990  •  James Forsyth   • HISTORY  •  An ethnohistory of the people of Siberia from Russian conquest to the 1980s. Forsyth looks at 30 indigenous groups, comparing their experience with Eskimos and Indians in North America. (SIB03, $55.00)
 		  
Gulag, A History  •  Anne Applebaum   • HISTORY  •  A massive, fascinating and thoroughly unsettling history of Russia's infamous gulags. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, it's noteworthy for its expansive view, effortless prose and prodigious research. (SIB34, $18.95)
 		  
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Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays  •  Valentin Rasputin   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Born in Irkutsk, where he still lives, Rasputin combines great in-sight and supple prose with passion for his homeland in this collection of six stories and six essays. (SIB04, $20.00)
 		  
Siberia, A Cultural History  •  Anthony Haywood   • HISTORY  •  Haywood offers a detailed, readable account of Siberian sights, cities and landscapes, tracing the history of the region from early indigenous cultures through Stalin's reign to the present. (SIB65, $16.95)
 		  
The Conquest of a Continent  •  W. Bruce Lincoln   • HISTORY  •  The marvelous Lincoln captures the ambition and avarice of fur trappers, Cossacks, military adventurers and the Soviets in this well-told, sweeping history. (SIB37, $26.95)
 		  
The Mongols, A Very Short Introduction  •  Morris Rossabi   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A leading historian portrays the Mongols and their world in this pcket "Very Short Introduction" by Oxfors University Press. (MGL76, $11.95)
 		  
The Museum at the End of the World, Encounters in the Russian Far East  •  Alexia Bloch  •  Laurel Kendall   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In this astute book, two anthropologists recount their 1998 journey in the footsteps of Franz Boas and the ambitious Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902), interweaving their own travels with history and ethnography. With chapters on travels in Chukotka, Magadan, Anadyr, Khabarovsk, Petropavlovsk and Esso in Kamchatka's central volcanic range. (SIB39, $29.95)
 		  
The Russian Far East, A History  •  John J. Stephan   • HISTORY  •  The first history of Russia's least-known region in any language, this comprehensive book is a readable, scholarly history of the Russian Far East from prehistory to the break-up of the Soviet Union. (RUS34, $32.95)
 		  
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World  •  Jack Weatherford   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Weatherford, who has lived and studied in Mongolia, interweaves his own travels and field work on the Central Asian steppes, much of it on horseback, with a lively portrait of Genghis Khan and the world of the medieval Mongols. The Mongols introduced not only mayhem, but also paper, printing, gunpowder, the compass and trousers to their far-flung empire. (CAS106, $15.00)
 		  
Sacred Sea, A Journey to Lake Baikal  •  Peter Thomson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Senior editor of National Public Radio's Living on Earth, Thomson blends personal tales with journalism, natural history and cultural insights in this lyrical account of a six-month journey. (SIB56, $29.95)
 		  
Silverland, A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals  •  Dervla Murphy   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Our favorite gallivanting Irish grandmother packs her woolies and heads off on a midwinter jaunt across Siberia on a typically adventurous outing, this time by train -- and with a suitcase. (SIB55, $17.95)
 		  
The Great Railway Bazaar  •  Paul Theroux   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Theroux's account of his journeys across Asia by train display the writer's inimitable talent for portraiture, ego and the dismissive aside. He takes every two-bit train he can find from London across Europe, Turkey and the Middle East, India, Japan and China, returning home via the Trans-Siberian Express. (ASA40, $14.95)
 		  
The Long Walk, The True Story of a Trek to Freedom  •  Slavomir Rawicz   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Thisremarkable tale follows the odyssey of cavalry officer Rawicz and six fellow prisoners from their capture in Moscow under Stalin to a prison camp in Yakutsk and escape across Siberia and the Gobi to Tibet and over the Himalayas to India. Originally published in 1956. (SIB13, $16.95)
 		  
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Through Siberia by Accident  •  Dervla Murphy   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  After wrenching her knee on the Trans-Siberian, the indomitable Murphy changes her plans: in lieu of a trip across Russia on her bicycle Pushkin, she explores the area around Lake Baikal, where, naturally, the plucky grandmother takes a swim. (SIB50, $16.95)
 		  
Travels in Siberia  •  Ian Frazier   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Practically bursting with affection for Russia, steeped in its literature -- and fresh from language lessons in Brighton Beach, Frazier journeys from Nome to Chukotka, Moscow to Novosibirsk, pays homage to Arseniev in Kamchatka and camps along the shores of Lake Baikal in this wide-eyed tale of the people, land and history of Siberia. He keeps his wit and humor intact through the bureaucracy, mangled arrangements and other challenges of modern Russia. (SIB64, $20.00)
 		  
Doctor Zhivago  •  Boris Pasternak  •  Richard Pevear  •  Larissa Volokhonsky   • LITERATURE  •  From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace (RUS391), Anna Karenina (RUS81) and The Death of Ivan Illyich (RUS391) comes a stunning new translation of Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, last translated in 1958. (RUS222, $16.95)
 		  
Nights at the Circus  •  Angela Carter   • LITERATURE  •  This wildly inventive, bawdy tale follows an enchanted circus and its six-foot-two winged star from turn-of-the-century London to St. Petersburg and Siberia. Ever since reading this novel, we've wanted to take the Trans-Siberian. (RUS189, $16.00)
 		  
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The Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon, Siberian Folk Tales  •  James Riordan   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of tales from throughout Siberia, divided thematically, and with an excellent introduction by James Riordan. Many of the stories feature the harsh setting of the tundra and importance of the spirit. (SIB12, $11.95)
 		  
Tigers in the Snow  •  Peter Matthiessen  •  Maurice Hornocker   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A lyrical tribute to the Siberian Tiger. Matthiessen writes movingly of tigers, their dwindling habitat and the people devoted to studying them. (SIB10, $15.00)
 		  
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