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Ainu, Spirit of a Northern People
• William Fitzhugh
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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A magnificently illustrated, handsomely produced overview of Ainu history, art and culture.
(JPN101, $49.95)
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Alaska, An American Colony
• Stephen Haycox
• HISTORY
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An engaging, scholarly history, neatly divided into Russian exploration and the American period.
(ALA160, $28.95)
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American Traveler, The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World
• James Zug
• EXPLORATION
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The biography an intrepid early American soul, and friend of Jefferson, who sailed with James Cook, trekked across Siberia and was among the first Americans to visit Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
(WLD54, $25.00)
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Arctic Dreams, Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
• Barry Lopez
• NATURAL HISTORY
• BEST SELLER
• FAVORITE
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A dazzling meditation on the Arctic, breathtaking in its scope. Lopez draws on his travels throughout the North, including Baffin Island, the Chukchi and Bering Seas, Alaska, the Yukon and Greenland, interweaving natural history, accounts of early exploration, anecdote and lore into an indelible portrait of place.
(ARC11, $15.00)
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Arctic Superstars
• William Putnam
• EXPLORATION
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An American Alpine Club centennial celebration of Adolphus Greely and George Melville.
(ARC144, $19.95)
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The Birds of Heaven, Travels With Cranes
• Peter Matthiessen
• Robert Bateman
• NATURAL HISTORY
• OUT OF PRINT
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Matthiessen traveled with the cranes to Siberia, Japan, Mongolia, North America, China, Bhutan, East Africa, Australia, India and Texas for this handsomely illustrated, informative book. He interweaves his travels with insightful commentary on the conservation, ecology, and the significance of the crane in art and culture.
(BRD11, $16.00)
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
• HISTORY
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The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state.
(FRN536, $12.00)
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Coming into the Country
• John McPhee
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• FAVORITE
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McPhee's lyrical portrait of some unforgettable Alaskan characters and Alaskan frontier life captures the spirit of the place like no other.
(ALA04, $17.00)
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Commonwealth of Independent States Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A double-sided map of the entire CIS, divided into Western Russia (at a scale of 1:2,000,000 and eastern Russia (1:8,000,000).
(RUS133, $12.95)
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A Concise History of the Russian Revolution
• Peter Dimock
• Richard Pipes
• HISTORY
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A serious but readable analysis of the Russian Revolution.
(RUS98, $17.00)
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Culture Smart! Russia, A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette
• Anna King
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice.
(RUS361, $9.95)
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The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Forty Years that Shook the World, from Stalin to Yeltsin
• Fred Coleman
• HISTORY
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Insightful analysis of Russia history and politics, post Stalin.
(RUS97, $19.95)
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Doctor Zhivago
• Boris Pasternak
• Max Hayward
• Manya Harari
• LITERATURE
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The epic novel of life and love set against the backdrop of the first half of the 20th century in Russia.
(RUS222, $15.95)
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Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond
• Rock Brynner
• HISTORY
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Rock Brynner, the son of movie star Yul follows his family history through four generations of life in the Russian Far East, Europe and Central Asia.
(RUS287, $29.95)
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Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse
• Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
• Vladimir Nabokov
• LITERATURE
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In this translation of Pushkin's epic poem set in 19th-century Russia, the great novelist Nabokov brings the spark of Pushkin's original words to life.
(RUS290, $22.95)
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Farewell to Matyora
• Valentin Rasputin
• Antonina Bouis
• Kathleen Parthe
• LITERATURE
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A classic novel by Valentin Rasputin, the acclaimed Siberian writer and environmentalist who advocates a return to traditional, rural ways of life.
(SIB22, $16.00)
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First Fish, First People, Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
• Meg McHutchinson
• Judith Roche
• One Reel
• ANTHOLOGY
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A collection of native voices from Pacific shores, all remembering the salmon. It's a lovely book, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, and made more poignant by the salmon's decline in the coastal regions.
(PNW116, $24.95)
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From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians
• Yale Richmond
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An introduction to understanding Russian culture.
(RUS96, $23.95)
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God Lives in St. Petersburg, and Other Stories
• Tom Bissell
• LITERATURE
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Six fast-paced tales set in Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and the Aral Sea by the author of Chasing the Sea.
(CAS117, $13.95)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train through Asia
• Paul Theroux
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. I
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Thomas Whitney
• LITERATURE
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A masterpiece of literature and history, this novel documents the horrors of Russia's prison system under communism. Based on Solzhenitsyn's first-hand experiences, it is a powerful and unforgettable work of suffering and redemption.
(RUS113, $26.00)
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. II
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Thomas Whitney
• LITERATURE
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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, $28.00)
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. III
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Thomas Whitney
• LITERATURE
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(RUS114, $26.00)
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Gulag, A History
• Anne Applebaum
• HISTORY
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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)
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Hell on Ice, The Saga of the Jeanette
• Edward Ellsberg
• EXPLORATION
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This limited edition of the dramatic fictionalized account of the doomed Jeanette Expedition and their time in the New Siberian Islands includes a CD of the original 1938 radio play by Orson Well's Merculy Thetaer.
(ARC138, $27.95)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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The History of Russia
• John Lawrence
• HISTORY
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A concise popular history of Russia from its pagan roots through the Tsarist period, revolution and post-Soviet realities.
(RUS289, $17.00)
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House of the Dead
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• David McDuff
• LITERATURE
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Dostoyevsky's semi-autobiographical novel of a man forced to endure ten years in a Siberian prison for the murder of his wife.
(RUS261, $12.00)
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Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village, 1892- 1902
• Kathleen Lopp Smith
• Verbeck Smith
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A chronicle of daily life, customs and struggles on the Bering Strait at the turn of the century. With 350 letters, more than 90 period photographs, maps, drawings from the letters, and reproductions of the five issues of "The Eskimo Bulletin."
(ALA152, $45.00)
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In the Land of White Death, An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
• Valerian Albanov
• David Roberts
• Jon Krakauer
• EXPLORATION
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A Russian sailor trapped aboard a ship in the ice sets out over the pack for Franz Josef Land.
(SIB16, $14.95)
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In the Soviet House of Culture, A Century of Perestroikas
• Bruce Grant
• HISTORY
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(RUS76, $26.95)
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Irkutsk, Lake Baikal Map
• Russian Government
• OUT OF PRINT
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An Irkutsk city map with a map of Baikal (but not surrounding roads or land) on the reverse. Published in Irkutsk.
(SIB17, $10.00)
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Islands of the Arctic
• Julian Dowdeswell
• Michael Hambrey
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The authors, glaciologists both, use examples from their work in Greenland, Spitsbergen, Russia and the Canadian Arctic in this illustrated survey.
(ARC122, $50.00)
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Journey into the Mind's Eye
• Leslie Blanch
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A travel book, love story and mystery, Journey into the Mind's Eye documents Blanch's early Romance with all things Russian.
(SIB47, $33.95)
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The Karluk's Last Voyage
• Capt. Robert Bartlett
• EXPLORATION
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A personal account Karluk expedition by its captain
(ARC129, $18.95)
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The Last Imaginary Place
• Robert McGhee
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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McGhee combines a lifetime of field work, ethnography and travel in this illuminating account of the human history of the Arctic.
(ARC164, $18.00)
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The Last Voyage of Captain Cook: The Collected Writings of John Ledyard
• James Zug
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This volume, edited by Ledyard-biographer James Zug, gathers his single travel book along with the best of his journals and letters.
(RUS354, $16.00)
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Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880
• Libby Beaman
• Betty John
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAVORITE
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Beaman's wonderfully evocative account, peppered with drawings and period photographs, depicts life in the Pribilof Islands.
(ARC07, $16.95)
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Literary Russia, A Guide
• Anna Benn
• Rosamund Bartlett
• GUIDEBOOK
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Back in print! Organized geographically, this guide and literary companion includes the homes, museums and literary landmarks of Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Nabokov and other Russian masters.
(RUS45, $37.50)
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Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway
• Simon Richmond
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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The Long Walk, The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
• Slavomir Rawicz
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler
• G. Edward Gray
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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(RUS353, $35.00)
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The Memoirs of Catherine the Great
• Catherine the Great
• Mark Cruse
• Hilde Hoogenboom
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This collection of memoirs begins eighteen years before the beginning of Catherine's rule, upon her arrival in Russia as a German princess in 1744, continuing until her death in 1796.
(RUS277, $26.95)
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Monster of God: The Man Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
• David Quammen
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In search of lions in India's Gir forest, Australia's formidable saltwater crocodiles, Romania's brown bears and tigers in the Russian Far East.
(BST84, $15.95)
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Once Upon the River Lore
• Andrei Makine
• Geoffrey Strachan
• LITERATURE
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In this richly evocative novel, three boys growing up in a Siberian backwater in the 1970's have their lives changed by watching a film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.
(SIB45, $24.95)
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• H. T. Willetts
• LITERATURE
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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)
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The Portable Chekhov
• Avrahm Yarmolinsky
• Anton Chekhov
• LITERATURE
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A collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov.
(RUS99, $18.00)
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Russia and the Russians, A History
• Geoffrey Hosking
• HISTORY
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This ambitious history tackles with clarity the scope and breadth of the Russian empire from its Kievan beginnings through Imperial expansion, revolution and the Soviet period all the way to the 21st century. An engaging history by a leading scholar, noteworthy for its big ideas, ambition and clarity.
(RUS208, $21.50)
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Russia, Experiment With a People
• Robert Service
• HISTORY
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An authoritative survey of the transformation of Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Service casts a wide net, looking at not just political and economic change but also the influence of society, culture and belief.
(RUS284, $18.95)
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The Russian Far East and Pacific Asia, Unfulfilled Potential
• Michael J. Bradshaw
• HISTORY
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Bradshaw offers a comprehensive analysis of the resources, economy and political situation of the Russian Far East, concluding with scenarios for the future development of the RFE.
(RUS355, $170.00)
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A Russian Journal
• John Steinbeck
• Robert Capa
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Steinbeck's moving account of the people and everyday life in Russia, the Ukraine and Cau-casus circa 1948, with striking photographs by the great Robert Capra.
(RUS275, $15.00)
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Russian Short Stories
• Robert Chandler
• LITERATURE
• NEW
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This fine collection of tales captures the sweep and soul of Russian literature, including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy along with lesser-known greats.
(RUS288, $17.00)
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Sacred Sea, A Journey to Lake Baikal
• Peter Thomson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Thomson blends personal tales with anecdote, environmental reporting, natural history and culture in this lyrical account of a six month journey.
(SIB56, $29.95)
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Seals and Sea Lions of the World
• Nigel Bonner
• FIELD GUIDE
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An accessible, comprehensive overview of the pinnipeds. With wit and grace, Bonner outlines the evolutionary history, biology and ecology and behavior of seals, sea lions and walruses.
(FG05, $35.00)
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Shamanic Worlds: Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia
• Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
• RELIGION
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A series of scholarly essays on Shaminism in Siberia and Central Asia.
(SIB18, $27.95)
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Shamans Through Time: 500 Year on the Path to Knowledge
• Jeremy Narby
• Francis Huxley
• RELIGION
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A collection of interviews and observations on Shamanism.
(GEN202, $14.95)
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Shanar, Dedication Ritual of Buryat Shaman in Siberia
• Virlana Tkacz
• Sayan Zhambalov
• Wanda Phipps
• Alexander Khantaev
• Dashinima Dugarov
• RELIGION
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An intimate account of a dedication ceremony among the shamans of Buryatia.
(SIB32, $39.95)
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Siberia and the Exile System, Volume 1
• George Kennan
• HISTORY
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Kennan, the author of Tent Life in Siberia, traveled back to the Russian Far East in 1891 -- the year that construction began on the Trans-Siberian Railroad -- to study Russia's exile and penal system. This is the first volume of his report.
(SIB57, $37.50)
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Siberia and the Exile System, Volume 2
• George Kennan
• HISTORY
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Kennan, the author of Tent Life in Siberia, traveled back to the Russian Far East in 1891 -- the year that construction began on the Trans-Siberian Railroad --to study Russia's exile and penal system. This is the second volume of his report.
(SIB58, $37.50)
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Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays
• Valentin Rasputin
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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)
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Siberia, Siberia
• Valentin Rasputin
• EXPLORATION
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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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)
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Siberian BAM Railway Guide: Rails, Rivers & Road
• Athol Yates
• Nicholas Zvegintzov
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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Siberian Curse, How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold
• Fiona Hill
• Clifford Gaddy
• HISTORY
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A provocative analysis of the future of Russia's immense communist-era Siberian cities.
(SIB42, $19.95)
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The Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon, Siberian Folk Tales
• James Riordan
• LITERATURE
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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)
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Syann am! Tuvan Folk Tales
• Kira Van Deusen
• Alexei Sedipkov
• LITERATURE
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An entertaining collection of eight Tuvan fairy tales.
(SIB21, $9.95)
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Tigers in the Snow
• Peter Matthiessen
• Maurice Hornocker
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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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Track of the Tiger, Legend and Lore of the Great Cat
• Maurice Hornocker
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A visually stunning celebration of the tiger.
(BST19, $30.00)
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Trans-Siberian Handbook
• Bryn Thomas
• GUIDEBOOK
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This compact guide features maps, history and practical details for cities and sights from Moscow to Irkutsk and Vladivostok.
(RUS73, $19.95)
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman's Last Journey
• Ralph Leighton
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A humorous account of eccentric Noble Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and his good friend -- and their obsessive quest for Tuva.
(SIB20, $13.95)
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A Woman's Asia
• Marybeth Bond
• ANTHOLOGY
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These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller.
(ASA49, $17.95)
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A Year With a Whaler
• Walter Noble Burns
• EXPLORATION
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Responding to a newspaper ad in 1890, Walter Noble Burns shipped out from San Francisco on a whaling expedition aboard the bark Alexander to the Chukchi and Bering Seas. He documents a way of life and time long gone in this facsimile reprint.
(OCE101, $17.95)
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