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Trans-Siberian Handbook

by Bryn Thomas

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 512 PAGES

Featuring maps, history and practical details for cities and sights from Moscow to Irkutsk and Vladivostok. (RUS73, $21.95)

In Siberia

by Colin Thubron

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2001
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Thubron captures the beauty, personality, contradictions and harsh nature of this huge land in this classic account of a 15,000-mile, cross-continental odyssey from the Yenisei to Baikal, Khabarovsk and Magadan. (SIB14, $14.99)

Dersu the Trapper

by V.K. Arseniev | Malcolm Burr

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1996
• PAPER
• 358 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Captain Arseniev's mesmerizing account of adventure, exploration and friendship in the Russian Far East, source for the Kurosowa film. (SIB24, $16.00)

Russia Map

by International Travel Maps

• 2011
• MAP

A double-sided map covering the full route of the Trans-Siberian railway. (RUS264, $12.95)

 

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Eyewitness Guide Moscow

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 263 PAGES

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

by Simon Richmond

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

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

by James Forsyth

• HISTORY
• 1992
• PAPER
• 455 PAGES

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

by Anne Applebaum

• HISTORY
• 2004
• PAPER
• 677 PAGES

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)

Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays

by Valentin Rasputin

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1990
• PAPER
• 252 PAGES

Born in Irkutsk 1937, 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, $18.00)

Siberia, A Cultural History

by Anthony Haywood

• HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

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

by W. Bruce Lincoln

• HISTORY
• 2007
• PAPER
• 528 PAGES

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 Museum at the End of the World, Encounters in the Russian Far East

by Alexia Bloch | Laurel Kendall

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2004
• PAPER
• 231 PAGES

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

by John J. Stephan

• HISTORY
• 1996
• PAPER
• 487 PAGES

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)

The Shaman's Coat, A Native History of Siberia

by Anna Reid

• HISTORY
• 2003
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES

Reid interviewed hunters, reindeer herders, storytellers and dozens of other aboriginal 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

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• EXPLORATION
• 1966
• PAPER
• 168 PAGES

A classic account of pioneering aviation, this wonderfully written memoir includes adventures in Petropavlovsk and the Russian Far East, Japan and the Yangtze. (ARC36, $12.95)

Sacred Sea, A Journey to Lake Baikal

by Peter Thomson

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES

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)

Siberia, Siberia

by Valentin Rasputin

• EXPLORATION
• 1997
• PAPER
• 443 PAGES
• 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

by Dervla Murphy

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2008
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

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)

Tent Life in Siberia

by George Kennan | Larry McMurtry

• EXPLORATION
• 2011
• PAPER
• 425 PAGES

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. (RUS142, $17.95)

The Great Railway Bazaar

by Paul Theroux

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2006
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

These 1970s journeys across Asia by train display Theroux's 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. Great fun. (ASA40, $14.95)

The Long Walk, The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by Slavomir Rawicz

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2006
• PAPER
• 245 PAGES

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)

The Other Side of Russia, A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East

by Sharon Hudgins

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2004
• PAPER
• 319 PAGES

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, $22.95)

Through Siberia by Accident

by Dervla Murphy

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2006
• PAPER
• 302 PAGES

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

by Ian Frazier

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 529 PAGES

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

by Boris Pasternak | Richard Pevear | Larissa Volokhonsky

• LITERATURE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 544 PAGES

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

by Angela Carter

• LITERATURE
• 1984
• PAPER
• 294 PAGES

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)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• LITERATURE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 181 PAGES

An overnight classic, Solzhenitsyn's poweful story of an inmate struggling to maintain his dignity in a Siberian labor camp still resonates today. (RUS26, $14.00)

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. II

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Thomas Whitney

• LITERATURE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 712 PAGES

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, $21.99)

The People's Act of Love

by James Meek

• LITERATURE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 391 PAGES

Meek draws on his experiences as a journalist in Russia to evoke the isolation and changing fate of Siberia in this novel set in an isolated village during the last days of the revolution. (SIB52, $14.95)

The Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon, Siberian Folk Tales

by James Riordan

• LITERATURE
• 1991
• PAPER
• 205 PAGES

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

by Peter Matthiessen | Maurice Hornocker

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2001
• PAPER
• 185 PAGES

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

by Norman Arlott

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 240 PAGES

This Princeton Illustrated Checklist, spanning all of the Russian Arctic, Europe, China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and the Middle East, features 80 color plates with range maps and succinct descriptions. (EUR276, $29.95)

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