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Trans-Siberian Handbook
Bryn Thomas
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 432 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, $19.95)
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, $14.95)
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. Arseniev, a Russian captain who explored much of the region north of Vladivostok at the turn-of-the-century, forged a friendship with the taciturn Dersu, a nomadic Goldi hunter, to whom he owed much of his success. The bond between the men, almost wordless (and much romanticized), heightens Arseniev's obvious love for the wilderness. The book was the source for Kurosowa's magnificent 1976 film, Dersu Uzala.
(SIB24, $16.00)
Russia Map
International Travel Maps
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).
(RUS264, $11.95)
Eyewitness Guide Moscow
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This outstanding guide covers Moscow's culture, history and attractions with maps, site plans and hundreds of color photographs.
(RUS164, $23.00)
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, $19.99)
Siberian BAM Railway Guide: Rails, Rivers & Road
Athol Yates
Nicholas Zvegintzov
GUIDEBOOK
A handbook to the Russian North-East from the Pacific to Lake Baikal. An excellent guide to the region, with strip maps covering the 3,400-km rail trip.
(SIB27, $23.95)
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, $48.00)
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, $16.95)
Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays
Valentin Rasputin
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A resident of Irkutsk, Rasputin combines great insight with supple prose and passion for his homeland in this collection of fiction and non-fiction.
(SIB04, $18.00)
Siberian Curse, How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold
Fiona Hill
Clifford Gaddy
HISTORY
A provocative analysis of the future of Russia's immense communist-era Siberian cities.
(SIB42, $19.95)
The Conquest of a Continent, Siberia and the Russians
W. Bruce Lincoln
HISTORY
The marvelous Lincoln, who wrote widely on Russia, captures the ambition and avarice of fur trappers, Cossacks, military adventurers and the Soviets in this vivid history. It's an absorbing tale, well told and sweeping in scope.
(SIB37, $25.00)
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, Petropoavlovsk and Esso in Kamchatka's central volcanic range.
(SIB39, $28.95)
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, $31.95)
The Shaman's Coat, A Native History of Siberia
Anna Reid
HISTORY
Reid, a talented journalist and intrepid traveler, interviewed hunters, reindeer herders, storytellers and dozens of other original inhabitants across Siberia for this eye-opening book. With chapters on the Khant, Buryat, Tuvans, Sakha, Ainu and Chukchi people.
(SIB28, $13.00)
North to the Orient
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
EXPLORATION
A classic account of pioneering aviation, this wonderfully written memoir includes adventures in Petropavlovsk and the Russian Far East, Japan and the Yangtze.
(ARC36, $12.00)
Reeling in Russia, An Angler's Paradise
Fen Montaigne
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A wonderfully written, entertaining and insightful portrait of modern Russia, and more specifically fishing in places like Baikal, Kamchatka and Kolyma.
(RUS61, $15.95)
Sacred Sea, A Journey to Lake Baikal
Peter Thomson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Thomson blends personal tales with anecdote, environmental reporting, natural history and culture in this lyrical account of a six-month journey.
(SIB56, $29.95)
Siberia, Siberia
Valentin Rasputin
EXPLORATION
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A sweeping account of the exploration, conquest and colonization of Russia's "West," beginning with the crossing of the Ural Mountains by the Cossacks in 1580.
(SIB01, $22.95)
Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals
Dervla Murphy
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The gallivanting Irish grandmother with an uncanny ability to make friends heads off on a midwinter jaunt on the Trans-Siberian.
(SIB55, $15.95)
Tent Life in Siberia
George Kennan
Larry McMurtry
EXPLORATION
Kennan's spirited account of his adventures among the people, little-known cultures and snow-capped volcanoes of Kamchatka and the Russian Far East, originally published in 1871, is a classic that made him famous in his day.
(RUS142, $14.95)
The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train through Asia
Paul Theroux
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Theroux's vintage 1970s journeys across Asia by Train, displaying all his talent for portraiture, ego and the dismissive aside. It's great fun. 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
The remarkable tale of cavalry officer Rawicz and six fellow prisoners and their odyssey from 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)
The Other Side of Russia, A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East
Sharon Hudgins
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A warm, insightful account of contemporary cultural and social life in Vladivostok, Irkutsk and other places in the Russian Far East, where the author traveled in the 1990s.
(SIB30, $19.95)
Through Siberia by Accident
Dervla Murphy
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
COMING IN JULY
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, $15.95)
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Max Hayward
Manya Harari
LITERATURE
The epic novel of life and love set against the backdrop of the first half of the 20th century in Russia.
(RUS222, $15.95)
Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter
LITERATURE
This wildly inventive, bawdy tale follows an enchanted circus and its six-foot-two winged star from London to St. Petersburg and Siberia. Ever since reading this novel, we've wanted to take the Trans-Siberian Express.
(RUS189, $15.00)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
H. T. Willetts
LITERATURE
The poignant story of an inmate in one of Stalin's Siberian labor camps struggling to maintain his dignity under the oppression of a Communist prison. This short novel became an overnight classic, still resonant today.
(RUS26, $13.00)
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. II
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thomas Whitney
LITERATURE
The second (and by some considered the best) in "The Gulag Archipelago" trilogy, this novel documents the horrors of Russia's prison system under communism, based on the author's first-hand experiences.
(RUS74, $21.95)
The People's Act of Love
James Meek
LITERATURE
Set in 1919 in the last days of the revolution, Meek's accomplished third novel opens with a stranger wandering from the frozen tundra of Siberia into an isolated town dominated by a strange Christian sect and occupied by Czech troops.
(SIB52, $14.95)
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)
Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan: Passerines: Tyrant Flycatchers to Buntings
Norman Arlott
FIELD GUIDE
This Princeton Illustrated Checklist, the first of two planned books, features 80 color plates with range maps and succinct descriptions.
(EUR276, $29.95)
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