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Kamchatka, A Journal & Guide

by Diana Gleadhill

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2007
• PAPER
• 312 PAGES

This handsomely illustrated handbook introduces the nature, wildlife, history and people of Kamchatka in essays, a travel diary, maps and hundreds of color photographs. (ARC201, $24.95)

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)

Kamchatka Map

by ITMB

• 2010
• MAP

This double-sided map includes insets of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Geyser Valley and the Commander Islands. (RUS322, $10.95)

 

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Eyewitness Guide Moscow

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2013
• PAPER
• 263 PAGES

This outstanding guide covers Moscow's culture, history and attractions with maps, site plans and hundreds of color photographs. (RUS164, $25.00)

Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway

by Simon Richmond

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• 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, $21.99)

The Basic Book of Sea Kayaking

by Derek C. Hutchinson

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2007
• PAPER
• 96 PAGES

A brief guide to the fundamentals of sea kayaking by a leading authority, equally useful for the beginner and as a review for experienced paddlers. With 50 color illustrations. (OCE54, $12.95)

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)

Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North

by Yuri Sleskine

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1996
• PAPER
• 456 PAGES

A fascinating overview of the 26 ethnic groups found in the Russian North, including Lapps, Eskimos, Aleuts, Uralic and Turkic nomads. (ARC22, $27.95)

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)

Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia

by Nina Tumarkin

• HISTORY
• 1997
• PAPER
• 337 PAGES

An enthralling study of the state-imposed cult of Lenin, Tumarkin's scrupulous examination follows the emergence, history and significance of Lenin's god-like representation in Soviet ideology. (RUS340, $31.50)

Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays

by Valentin Rasputin

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1990
• PAPER
• 252 PAGES

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)

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 Living & the Dead, The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia

by Nina Tumarkin

• HISTORY
• 1995
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

A captivating and readable account of the Soviet manipulation of The Great Patriotic War and its effect on the Russian people. Tumarkin astutely illustrates the lengths to which Stalin distorted, fabricated and falsified history in order to garnish support for the Communist Party after World War II. (RUS359, $24.00)

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, $33.95)

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)

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 Long Walk

by Slavomir Rawicz

• EXPLORATION
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 288 PAGES

Peter Weir's film adaptation of this classic tale of endurance, releasing nationwide in January. The harrowing tale of Slavomir Rawicz and six fellow prisoners, who marched out of a Siberian gulag across the Gobi and through China and Tibet over the Himalayas to British India. Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell and Ed Harris star in the film adaptation by Peter Weir. An Oscar contender, it Now in a handsome hardcover edition. (EXP82, $24.95)

Where the Sea Breaks Its Back

by Corey Ford

• EXPLORATION
• 1992
• PAPER
• 206 PAGES

Ford paints a vivid portrait of Georg Steller and his first encounters with the wildlife of Kamchatka, the Bering Sea and Alaska in this gripping tale of discovery and hardship on Bering's Great Nordic Expedition of 1741. (ALA07, $16.99)

Bering, The Russian Discovery of America

by Orcutt Frost

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2003
• HARD COVER
• 330 PAGES

The first modern biography of the great explorer -- and an excellent account of still little-known regions of Kamchatka and the Russian Far East. The author draws on new evidence to reinvigorate the life and adventures of the seafaring Dane. (SIB33, $35.00)

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)

Reeling in Russia, An Angler's Paradise

by Fen Montaigne

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1998
• PAPER
• 275 PAGES

A wonderfully written, entertaining and insightful portrait of modern Russia, and more specifically fishing in places like Baikal, Kamchatka and Kolyma. (RUS61, $18.95)

Steller's Island: Adventures of a Pioneer Naturalist in Alaska

by Dean Littlepage

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2006
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

The riveting tale of Vitus Bering's great six-year expedition from Kamchatka to Alaska -- and of naturalist Geog Steller's celebrated discoveries in Russia and the New World. (ALA242, $17.95)

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)

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)

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)

Steller's History of Kamchatka

by Georg Wilhelm Steller

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2003
• PAPER

Steller's handwritten notes on Kamchatka and the Kamchadals, written in 1743-1744 after Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition, are here translated into English for the first time. (SIB36, $34.95)

Volcanoes, Crucibles of Change

by Richard Fisher

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 1998
• PAPER
• 344 PAGES

A complete primer for the volcano lover, this heavily illustrated book covers types of volcanoes and eruptions, worldwide distribution and the physics of their formation. (GEO02, $30.95)

Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia

by Mark Brazil

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 520 PAGES

Brazil's comprehensive guide, featuring 234 color plates, includes Japan, Taiwan and the islands along with the adjacent areas of Asia from Kamchatka to Korea. (JPN332, $39.95)

Marine Mammals of the Eastern North Pacific

by Sea Grant Alaska | Pieter Folkens

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2010
• PLASTIC CARD
• 8 PAGES

This 8-panel waterproof card illustrates Alaska's whales, dolphins, sea otters and seals. (ALA143, $10.00)

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