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	About This Life, Journeys on the Threshold of Memory • Barry Lopez • ANTHOLOGY • A collection of essays on far-flung travels -- both actual and internal -- by the wonderful writer and traveler. Lopez includes Galapagos, Hokkaido, Bonaire and Antarctica among the thoughtful essays. (GEN42, $13.95)
	Across Arctic America, Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition • Knud Rasmussen • EXPLORATION • OUT OF PRINT • A facsimile edition of Rasmussen's 1927 account of a 20,000-mile journey by dogsled across the top of North America. (ARC90, $24.95)
	Alaska, An American Colony • Stephen Haycox • HISTORY • An engaging, scholarly history, neatly divided into Russian exploration and the American period. (ALA160, $18.95)
	American Traveler, The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World • James Zug • EXPLORATION • 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)
	Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century • Donald Keene • ANTHOLOGY • A classic first published in 1955, this book presents great Japanese literature over the ages. (JPN12, $15.95)
	Antler on the Sea, the Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East • Anna Kerttula • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of the daily life, culture and economy of a typical village along the Chukotka Peninsula, written by an anthropologist who lived there for 18 months. (RUS100, $22.95)
	Architecture and Authority in Japan • William H. Coaldrake • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Japanese architecture and its relationship to political and religious power structures. (JPN112, $59.95)
	Arctic Dreams, Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape • Barry Lopez • NATURAL HISTORY • FAVORITE • A dazzling meditation on the Arctic, breathtaking in 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)
	Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North • Yuri Sleskine • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A fascinating overview of the 26 ethnic groups found in the Russian North, including Lapps, Eskimos, Aleuts, Uralic and Turkic nomads. (ARC22, $24.95)
	Arctic Superstars • William Putnam • EXPLORATION • An American Alpine Club centennial celebration of Adolphus Greely and George Melville. (ARC144, $19.95)
	The Art of Setting Stones & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden • Marc P. Keane • NATURAL HISTORY • In these lyrical essays Kyoto-resident and landscape architect Marc Peter Keane takes eight gardens of his adopted home as a point of departure for reflections on nature, religion and aesthetics. (JPN124, $16.95)
	An Artist in the Floating World • Kazuo Ishiguro • LITERATURE • His second novel, Ishiguro weaves a tale of an aging artist in postwar Japan. (JPN58, $13.95)
	Audrey Hepburn's Neck, A Novel • Alan Brown • LITERATURE • An exquisite short novel about contemporary Japan. This prize-winning work captures the eclectic, mixed-up society of contemporary Japan. (JPN14, $20.95)
	Bear Attacks, Their Causes and Avoidance • Stephen Herrero • NATURAL HISTORY • Despite its frightening title, this book is a helpful introduction to the natural history and behavior of the bear by a long-term researcher in the field. With useful tips on "avoidance." (BST21, $16.95)
	The Birds of Heaven, Travels With Cranes • Peter Matthiessen • Robert Bateman • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • 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)
	The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja, A Donald Keene Anthology • Donald Keene • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Keene tackles Japanese music, language, society and literature in these insightful pieces. (JPN15, $35.50)
	The Book of Tea • Kakuzo Okakura • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A graceful, witty meditation on Japanese aesthetics and culture as reflected through the tea ceremony. A celebrity and cultural ambassador, Okakura was a curator at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. (JPN21, $9.95)
	Buddhism, A Concise Introduction • Huston Smith • Philip Novak • RELIGION • A brief yet illuminating overview, discussing Theravada and other South Asian traditions in the first half and then Western traditions in the second. (ASA41, $12.95)
	Buddhist Art and Architecture • Robert Fisher • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A wide-ranging, illustrated survey of Buddhist art, architecture and iconography in the excellent World of Art series. It includes examples from throughout Asia. (ASA30, $18.95)
	Cha-No-Yu, The Japanese Tea Ceremony • Arthur L. Sadler • A.L. Sadler • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A classic guide to the disciplined, enduring art of the Japanese tea ceremony. (JPN59, $14.95)
	Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Patterns of Japanese Culture • Ruth Benedict • Ezra Vogel • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Published in the aftermath of World War II, this brilliant exploration of the Japanese psyche and culture retains its interest today, as much for its perspective on the West as for insights about the Japanese character. (JPN23, $15.00)
	Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe • Glynis Ridley • HISTORY • 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)
	Coming into the Country • John McPhee • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE • McPhee's lyrical portrait of frontier life and some unforgettable Alaskan characters captures the spirit of the place like no other. (ALA04, $17.00)
	Commonwealth of Independent States Map • Freytag & Berndt • 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)
	A Concise History of the Russian Revolution • Peter Dimock • Richard Pipes • HISTORY • A serious but readable analysis of the Russian Revolution. (RUS98, $17.00)
	Confessions of a Mask • Meredith Weatherby • Yukio Mishima • LITERATURE • This powerful book is the story of the monk who burned the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. It's an unsettling portrait of society in Post-War Japan, and the coming of age of a complex, tragic figure who struggles with his homosexuality. (JPN18, $12.95)
	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 well told, sweeping history. (SIB37, $25.00)
	Crawling at Night • Nani Power • LITERATURE • Two nocturnal New Yorkers stumble through the nights in this atmospheric debut novel set in New York from a former sushi chef. (NYC83, $13.00)
	The Cruise of the Corwin • John Muir • William Frederic Bade • EXPLORATION • An account of an 1881 voyage with Muir and others in search of the Jeanette Expedition, this book is also an eyewitness report of little-known lands including the Chukchi Peninsula, Diomede, Wrangel and Herald islands. (ALA76, $16.95)
	Tokyo, A View of the City • Donald Richie • GUIDEBOOK • A literate essay on the culture, history and fabric of Tokyo, where the author has lived for 50 years. Structured as a geographic tour, starting at the Imperial palace and branching out. With black-and-white photography. (JPN90, $25.00)
	The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Forty Years that Shook the World, from Stalin to Yeltsin • Fred Coleman • HISTORY • Insightful analysis of Russia history and politics, post Stalin. (RUS97, $19.95)
	Deep River • Shusaku Endo • LITERATURE • (JPN159, $13.95)
	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)
	Dogs and Demons, Tales from the Dark Side of Japan • Alex Kerr • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A provocative analysis of current economic and social conditions in Japan. (JPN55, $17.00)
	Donald Richie Reader, 50 Years of Writing on Japan • Donald Richie • Arturo Silva • ANTHOLOGY • A wonderful selection of essays, criticism and other writing from Richie's many books, published articles and unpublished diaries on Japan. He covers a wide range of topics and interests, including travel, film, aesthetics and Zen Buddhism. (JPN89, $19.95)
	Drawing Shadows to Stone • Laurel Kendall • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • Featuring 83 photographs, this book is a record of the 1897 American Museum of Natural History expedition to Alaska and Siberia under Franz Boas. It illuminates the anthropology of peoples on both sides of Bering Strait. (ARC34, $22.50)
	A Dream in Polar Fog • Yuri Rytkheu • Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse • LITERATURE • A lyrical tale of life in the Arctic, traditional ways, and cultural encounters, this absorbing novel follows the fate of a young Canadian explorer stranded among the Chukchi people on the edge of the Bering Sea. (SIB44, $14.00)
	During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade • Nagai Kafu • Lane Dunlop • LITERATURE • Two novellas set in red-light 1930s Tokyo, by a consummate Tokyo chronicler. (JPN106, $21.95)
	East Asia, Tradition and Transformation • John Fairbank • Edwin O. Reischauer • Albert M. Craig • HISTORY • A sprawling history of China and Japan, covering ancient through modern times. (ASA18, $171.96)
	Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of WWII • John W. Dower • HISTORY • A social and political history of the postwar years in Japan. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, it's an eye-opening account by a leading scholar of Japanese-American relations at MIT. (JPN54, $18.95)
	Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond • Rock Brynner • HISTORY • 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)
	The Essential Haiku, Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa • Robert Hass • LITERATURE • A collection of haiku, tenderly translated, by three Japanese masters of the form. Edited by ormer Poet Laureate Robert Hass. (JPN93, $16.00)
	Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • Vladimir Nabokov • LITERATURE • 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)
	Everyday Life in Traditional Japan • Charles Dunn • Laurence Broderick • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A cultural portrait of daily life in Tokugawa Japan under rule of the shogun. (JPN68, $14.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Japan • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Dazzling illustrations, architectural cutaways and color photographs, along with useful local maps, give this guide to Japan's many attractions a distinct edge. (JPN130, $25.00)
	Farewell to Matyora • Valentin Rasputin • Antonina Bouis • Kathleen Parthe • LITERATURE • 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)
	First Fish, First People, Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim • Meg McHutchinson • Judith Roche • One Reel • ANTHOLOGY • 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)
	Five by Endo • Shusaku Endo • LITERATURE • (JPN158, $9.95)
	The Floating World • James Michener • Howard A. Link • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Michener delves into the history of Japanese printmaking. (JPN57, $27.95)
	Fodor's Exploring Japan • David Scott • GUIDEBOOK • A compact guide to the history, culture and attractions of Japan. Includes walking tours and good neighborhood maps, and features color photographs. (JPN33, $22.00)
	From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians • Yale Richmond • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An introduction to understanding Russian culture. (RUS96, $23.95)
	Frommer's Japan • Frommer's • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, practical guide to travel in Japan. (JPN117, $24.99)
	Gambling with Virtue, Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing Nation • Nancy Ross Rosenberger • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of diverse women, their aspirations and roles in Japanese society. (JPN129, $26.00)
	The Gardens of Japan • Teiji Itoh • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This beautifully illustrated overview of the history and tradition of gardens features 75 color photographs and astute essays. With a guide to 50 popular and representative gardens. (JPN38, $60.00)
	Geisha • Liza Crihfield Dalby • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The observations of an American graduate student who apprenticed as a geisha, interpreting this intriguing role in traditional Japanese society. (JPN49, $22.95)
	Geisha, A Life • Mineko Iwasaki • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The memoir of a celebrated Geisha, rich in details of life in Kyoto's Gion Kobu district. Iwasaki was the chief source of information for Arthur Golden's best-selling "Memoirs of a Geisha." (JPN131, $15.00)
	The Girl Who Played Go • Shan Sa • Adriana Hunter • LITERATURE • In this accomplished novel set in a Manchurian city in the war-torn 1930s, two young people -- one of each side of the conflict -- fall in love. (CHN214, $14.95)
	God Lives in St. Petersburg, and Other Stories • Tom Bissell • LITERATURE • Six fast-paced tales set in Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and the Aral Sea by the author of Chasing the Sea. (CAS117, $13.95)
	The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral • Robert A. Scott • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs. (EUR190, $17.95)
	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 Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan • Christopher Benfey • HISTORY • The fascinating tale of a tightly-knit group of late Victorian travelers, scientists and adventurers dedicated to the idea of Japan. (JPN138, $14.95)
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. I • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Thomas Whitney • LITERATURE • 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, $21.95)
	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 Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. III • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Thomas Whitney • LITERATURE • The third volume in "The Gulag Archipelago" trilogy. (RUS114, $21.95)
	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)
	Haruko's World, A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community • Gail Lee Bernstein • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of life in contemporary rural Japan. (JPN150, $23.95)
	Hell on Ice, The Saga of the Jeanette • Edward Ellsberg • EXPLORATION • 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)
	Here Is Where We Meet • John Berger • LITERATURE • 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)
	Herons and Egrets of the World, A Photographic Journey • James Hancock • NATURAL HISTORY • A photographic survey of all 47 species and subspecies of herons. (BRD09, $29.95)
	Hired Swords, The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan • Karl F. Friday • HISTORY • A scholarly history of court-warrior relationships in the 7th to 12th centuries. (JPN146, $26.95)
	Hiroshima • John Hersey • HISTORY • Never sensational, this classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hersey, first published in 1946, puts a human face on the unthinkable. Hersey explores the tragedy through interviews with residents, scientists and politicians. (JPN20, $7.50)
	The History of Gardens • Christopher Thacker • NATURAL HISTORY • A standard world history of gardens, well illustrated and wide-ranging, covering everything from Zen gardens in Japan to English country gardens. (GRD09, $41.95)
	A History of Japan, From Stone Age to Superpower • Kenneth G. Henshall • HISTORY • A brief, accessible history of the economic transformation of Japan. (JPN133, $21.95)
	The History of Russia • John Lawrence • HISTORY • A concise popular history of Russia from its pagan roots through the Tsarist period, revolution and post-Soviet realities. (RUS289, $17.00)
	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, $50.00)
	House of the Dead • Fyodor Dostoevsky • David McDuff • LITERATURE • 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)
	The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk • Jennifer Niven • EXPLORATION • A well-researched and detailed account of the ambitious Canadian Arctic Expedition. Nivens draws on diaries, journals and letters to reconstruct, month by month, the explorers' tragic fate in the Russian Arctic surrounding Wrangel Island. (ARC130, $14.95)
	Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village, 1892- 1902 • Kathleen Lopp Smith • Verbeck Smith • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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)
	In Praise of Shadows • Junichiro Tanizaki • Thomas J. Harper • Edward G. Seidensticker • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This essay by the great Japanese novelist, first published in 1933, offers tremendous insight into Japanese aesthetics. It's an earthy meditation on traditional Japanese art, architecture and design. Most illuminating. (JPN19, $9.95)
	In Siberia • Colin Thubron • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • Thubron captures the contradictions, beauty, personality and hardship of this huge land in his immensely enjoyable account of a 15,000-mile, cross-continental odyssey from the Yenisei to Baikal, Khabarovsk and Magadan. (SIB14, $14.95)
	In the Land of White Death, An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic • Valerian Albanov • David Roberts • Jon Krakauer • EXPLORATION • A Russian sailor trapped aboard a ship in the ice sets out over the pack for Franz Josef Land. (SIB16, $14.95)
	In the Ring of Fire, A Pacific Basin Journey • James Houston • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A lyrical narrative of the author's journeys through Japan, Indonesia, Micronesia, Hawaii and California. (PAC45, $14.95)
	In the Soviet House of Culture, A Century of Perestroikas • Bruce Grant • HISTORY • (RUS76, $27.95)
	The Inland Sea • Donald Richie • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • Richie's masterpiece, more than a travel account, is a beautiful reflection on all things Japanese by one of its most acute observers. (JPN13, $16.95)
	Insight Guide East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • An illustrated guide to the history, culture and traditions of China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan featuring 250 color photographs and 16 maps. (ASA27, $24.95)
	Insight Guide Japan • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, illustrated guide to Japan. Half the book is devoted to a survey of attractions throughout the archipelago. Features full color maps. (JPN74, $23.95)
	Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 • Ian Buruma • HISTORY • Buruma offers admirably succinct, dramatic history of Japan's transformation from feudal state to host of the 1964 Olympics, with a focus on World War II. (JPN139, $12.95)
	Islands of the Arctic • Julian Dowdeswell • Michael Hambrey • NATURAL HISTORY • The authors, glaciologists both, use examples from their work in Greenland, Spitsbergen, Russia and the Canadian Arctic in this illustrated survey. (ARC122, $50.00)
	The Japan Journals, 1947-2004 • Donald Richie • Leza Lowitz • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A collection of essays from the eminent film historian and observer of Japan. (JPN141, $29.95)
	Japan, A Reinterpretation • Patrick Smith • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A thoughtful, stimulating look at the country since World War II, targeting the role of the U.S. in creating modern Japan. Highly recommended. (JPN16, $15.95)
	Japan, A Short Cultural History • George A. Sansom • HISTORY • A classic overview of Japanese culture and history, originally published in 1931. (JPN151, $36.95)
	Japan, Its History and Culture • W. Scott Morton • HISTORY • An introduction to Japanese history, people and culture from ancient origins to contemporary society. With selections from Japanese literature and arts, anecdotes and illustrations. (JPN03, $18.95)
	Japan/Korea Political Wall Map • National Geographic • A National Geograpic wall map showing Japan and Korea. (JPN122, $14.99)
	Japan: Why It Works, Why It Doesn't • James Mak • Shigeyuki Abe • Kazuhiro Igawa • Shyam Sunder • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A brief social history of Japan organized as a series of 26 short essays on the economics of everyday life from pachinko and rice to vending machine, shopping, work and marriage. (JPN153, $20.00)
	Japanese Art • Joan Stanley-Baker • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Concise, thoroughly illustrated and comprehensive, this handsome book in the "World of Art" series is a fine survey of Japanese art from the prehistoric period to modern Japan. With 167 illustrations. (JPN08, $18.95)
	Japanese Culture • Paul Varley • HISTORY • A popular introduction to Japanese history and culture for undergraduates. In this admirably succinct book, Valery traces cultural trends from the emergence of Japanese civilization through the present age. (JPN84, $22.00)
	Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 • Donald Keene • HISTORY • An erudite but nicely written study of Japanese and Western interactions before Comodore Perry, much of which involved the Dutch presence in Nagasaki, first published in 1952. (JPN152, $21.95)
	Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads, Challenges and Options for the Twenty-First Century • Yutaka Kawashima • HISTORY • A though-provoking analysis by the man who was Japan's vice minister of foreign affairs. (JPN132, $32.95)
	Japanese Garden Design • Marc P. Keane • Haruzo Ohashi • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated introduction to the aesthetics and meanings of Japanese gardens. It relates the social, religious and historical contexts to landscape and garden design. (JPN52, $30.00)
	Japanese Inn • Oliver Statler • LITERATURE • Life over four generations at a country inn. An impressionistic overview of traditional Japan solidly based on actual historic events. Illustrated with 50 Japanese prints. (JPN39, $22.00)
	The Japanese Today, Continuity and Change • Edwin O. Reischauer • Marius Jansen • HISTORY • A wide-ranging, engaging survey of Japanese culture and society by two prominent historians. (JPN83, $25.00)
	Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 • Georg Wilhelm Steller • O. W. Frost • EXPLORATION • The original account of the European discovery of Alaska, including a vivid description of the harrowing return voyage. (RUS63, $23.95)
	Journey into the Mind's Eye • Leslie Blanch • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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)
	The Karluk's Last Voyage • Capt. Robert Bartlett • EXPLORATION • A personal account Karluk expedition by its captain (ARC129, $18.95)
	Kyoto Map • Periplus Maps • This convenient map includes detailed information on Old Kyoto. It shows different sections of Kyoto and surrounding areas at a variety of scales, ranging from 1:12,000 to 1:500,000. (JPN27, $8.95)
	Kyoto, Seven Paths to the Heart of the City • Diana Durston • Katsuhiko Mizuno • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An oversize, nicely illustrated walking guide to seven historic districts in the city. Includes 100 color photographs and 8 very helpful full-color maps. The neighborhood descriptions are augmented by Durston's notes on architecture, food, crafts and festivals. (JPN119, $24.95)
	The Lady and the Monk, Four Seasons in Kyoto • Pico Iyer • LITERATURE • Deeply romanticized, this short novel is nonetheless redolent in the places, sights and sounds of modern day Kyoto. Iyer writes with infectious charm the story of a young American man and his affair with a bored Japanese married woman. (JPN32, $14.95)
	The Last Imaginary Place • Robert McGhee • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • McGhee combines a lifetime of field work, ethnography and travel in this illuminating account of the human history of the Arctic. (ARC164, $18.00)
	A Lateral View, Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan • Donald Richie • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Insightful essays tackling the arts, society and culture of modern Japan by the reigning dean of critics. (JPN01, $14.95)
	Learning to Bow, Inside the Heart of Japan • Bruce Feiler • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • As surprising, helpful and informative as it is funny, this is an insightful account of travels and teaching in Japan. Feiler presents anecdotes on the rituals, personality traits and cultural peccadilloes of the Japanese. (JPN111, $13.95)
	Letters to Henrietta • Lisa Chubbuck • Isabella Bird • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This extremely enjoyable collection of letters back home capture the verve and spirit of the globe-trotting spinster from the Isle of Mull. (WLD39, $22.95)
	Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880 • Libby Beaman • Betty John • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE • Beaman's wonderfully evocative account, peppered with drawings and period photographs, depicts life in the Pribilof Islands. (ARC07, $16.95)
	Life of Jesus • Shusaku Endo • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • (JPN156, $11.95)
	Light Verse from the Floating World • Makoto Ueda • LITERATURE • An anthology of 400 often comic 17-syllable verse pomes that reflect daily life in Edo Japan. (JPN86, $25.00)
	Literary Russia, A Guide • Anna Benn • Rosamund Bartlett • GUIDEBOOK • 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)
	Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook • Yoshi Abe • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A palm-sized, handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (JPN136, $8.99)
	Lonely Planet Kyoto • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • An excellent practical travel guide to Kyoto, covering history and culture, as well as its many temples, gardens and attractions. With day trips, 32 pages of maps and travel details, including chapters on Nara and Osaka. (JPN60, $22.99)
	Lonely Planet Tokyo • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, practical guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style. (JPN100, $19.99)
	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)
	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)
	Lost Japan • Alex Kerr • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Originally appearing as a series of 15 articles in a Japanese magazine, long-time resident Kerr offers a wistful account of traditional culture and change in contemporary Japan. (JPN36, $10.95)
	The Making of Modern Japan • Marius Jansen • HISTORY • An epic account of Japan and its transformation from feudal society to modern superpower. (JPN88, $24.50)
	The Makioka Sisters • Tanizaki Junichiro • LITERATURE • The story of a merchant family in prewar Osaka and the strugggle of four beautiful sisters to maintain their position in society after the death of their parents, also made into a delightful film by Ichikawa. (JPN41, $15.95)
	Marine Mammals of Alaska • Kate Wynne • FIELD GUIDE • Designed for use in the field, this indispensable guide features large color photographs, key information and detailed range maps for all the whales, seals and other marine creatures of Alaska and the Bering Sea across to Russia. (ALA08, $25.00)
	Memoirs of a Geisha, A Novel • Arthur Golden • LITERATURE • The runaway best-selling novel about a geisha in the celebrated Gion district of Kyoto. A major feat of literary impersonation, the novel is rich in period detail and ceremony. (JPN45, $14.95)
	The Memoirs of Catherine the Great • Catherine the Great • Mark Cruse • Hilde Hoogenboom • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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)
	Midway, The Battle that Doomed Japan • Mitsuo Fuchida • HISTORY • A groundbreaking account of the Battle of Midway told from the Japanese perspective. (HWI58, $19.95)
	Modern Japanese Literature • Donald Keene • ANTHOLOGY • A sampling of Japanese literature from the 19th to 2 (JPN72, $15.95)
	Monster of God: The Man Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind • David Quammen • NATURAL HISTORY • 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)
	Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches • Nobuyuki Yuasa • Basho Matsuo • LITERATURE • These marvelous prose-and-poetry sketches by the famous poet wanderer Basho (1644-94) invoke the mysteries of the cosmos manifest in the Japanese landscape. With some of the most perfect 17-syllable haiku ever composed. (JPN91, $13.00)
	National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America • National Geographic • FIELD GUIDE • From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)
	National Geographic Traveler Japan • Nicholas Bornoff • GUIDEBOOK • A guide to Japan in National Geographic style. (JPN120, $27.95)
	Nature: Bears: Walking with Giants, Grizzlies of Siberia • Nature • NATURAL HISTORY • A double-feature from the award-winning Nature series. Walking with Giants features Canadian naturalist Charlie Russell's remarkable South Kamchatka Sanctuary. Showdown at Grizzly River, filmed at McNeil River Falls in Alaska, shows the bears gorging on salmon. 112 minutes. (SIB46, $19.99)
	Noguchi East and West • Dore Ashton • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A good biography, by a talented writer about art. (ART16, $25.95)
	Old Kyoto, A Guide to Traditional Shops and Inns • Diane Durston • GUIDEBOOK • Wonderful, elegant essays on carefully chosen shops, often in out-of-the-way neighborhoods. (JPN24, $22.00)
	Once Upon the River Lore • Andrei Makine • Geoffrey Strachan • LITERATURE • 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)
	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)
	Open Lands, Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places • Mark Taplin • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • OUT OF PRINT • A witty travelogue about regions of Russia suddenly thrown open to the West, including gulags, Siberian archipelagos, Kamchatka and Vladivostok. (RUS62, $18.00)
	The Other Japan, Voices Beyond the Mainstream • David Suzuki • Keibo Oiwa • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A collection of interviews with activists and human rights workers in Japan. (JPN128, $18.95)
	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)
	Our Land Was a Forest, An Ainu Memoir • Kayano Shingeru • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This lovely memoir of life on Hokkaido in the years following WWII is also an account of the disappearing traditions of the Ainu people in the face of a modernizing nation. (JPN46, $34.00)
	The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon • Shonagon Sei • Ivan Morris • LITERATURE • Exquisite short essays and vignettes of Japanese court life in the Heian period. (JPN76, $16.00)
	The Portable Chekhov • Avrahm Yarmolinsky • Anton Chekhov • LITERATURE • A collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov. (RUS99, $18.00)
	The Rarest of the Rare, Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds • Diane Ackerman • NATURAL HISTORY • This collection of six marvelous essays includes Ackerman's visit to the Po�o das Antas Biological Reserve, home to the world's only remaining population of wild golden lion tamarin. She also includes chapters on the Hawaiian monk seal, short-tailed albatross and monarch butterfly. (BST26, $12.95)
	Read Japanese Today • Len Walsh • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A classic guide to the pictorial origins, meaning and pronunciation of 300 common characters. (JPN110, $14.95)
	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)
	The Reindeer People, Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia • Piers Vitebsky • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • NEW • Vitebsky captures the hardships, challenges and routines of everyday life of the Eveny people on the taiga of northeastern Siberia. (SIB48, $15.95)
	Religion in Contemporary Japan • Ian Reader • RELIGION • A collection of case studies of religious practices, festivals and rituals. (JPN127, $19.00)
	The River Ki • Sawako Ariyoshi • LITERATURE • A chronicle of three generations of women. (JPN126, $16.00)
	The Roads to Sata, a 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan • Alan Booth • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A revealing, humorous account of the author's 2,000-mile walk north to south from Hokkaido to Kyushu by a wonderfully eccentric British expatriate. (JPN11, $16.00)
	Russia and the Russians, A History • Geoffrey Hosking • HISTORY • 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, $23.00)
	Russia Map • International Travel Maps • A double-sided map of all of Russia, including the best available coverage for travelers on the Trans-Siberian, at a scale of 1:6,000,000. (RUS264, $11.95)
	Russia, A Concise History • Ronald Hingley • HISTORY • Well-known scholar Hingley sketches Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire in this highly readable, well-illustrated brief history. (RUS04, $19.95)
	Russia, Experiment With a People • Robert Service • HISTORY • 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, $20.00)
	The Russian Far East, A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development • Josh Newell • GUIDEBOOK • A fact-filled, interdisciplinary overview of the region, its resources, ecology and future, by a team of specialists. With accompanying tables, graphs, illustrations and 50 maps (many in color). (SIB40, $59.95)
	A Russian Journal • John Steinbeck • Robert Capa • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 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)
	Russian Short Stories • Robert Chandler • LITERATURE • NEW • This fine collection of tales captures the sweep and soul of Russian literature, including works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy along with