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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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Antler on the Sea, the Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East
• Anna Kerttula
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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, $21.95)
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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 Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North
• Yuri Sleskine
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A fascinating overview of the 26 ethnic groups found in the Russian North, including Lapps, Eskimos, Aleuts, Uralic and Turkic nomads.
(ARC22, $24.95)
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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 Art of the Russian North
• Anne Odom
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This illustrated collection of essays on the art of the Russian North includes contributions by William Brumfield on churches, Anne Odom on chests and plates, and Allison Hilton on distaffs and paintings.
(SIB49, $18.00)
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The Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Region of Wonders
• Terry Johnson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An up-to-date, fact-filled illustrated primer on the region, its geography, marine and terrestrial life, mineral resources, industry and culture.
(ALA197, $25.00)
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Bering, The Russian Discovery of America
• Orcutt Frost
• HISTORY
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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)
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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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The Cruise of the Corwin
• John Muir
• William Frederic Bade
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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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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Drawing Shadows to Stone
• Laurel Kendall
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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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)
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A Dream in Polar Fog
• Yuri Rytkheu
• Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
• LITERATURE
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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)
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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 Class, Legendary Train Journeys Around the World
• Patrick Poivre D'Arvor
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An illustrated celebration of the elegance and regency of great trains of past and present, including the Orient Express, the Trans-Siberian and the California Zephyr.
(WLD126, $35.00)
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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 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. III
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Thomas Whitney
• LITERATURE
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(RUS114, $26.00)
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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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The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
• Jennifer Niven
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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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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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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Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742
• Georg Wilhelm Steller
• O. W. Frost
• EXPLORATION
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The original account of the European discovery of Alaska, including a vivid description of the harrowing return voyage.
(RUS63, $23.95)
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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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Kamchatka Peninsula Map
• Avacha Bay
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A full-color map based on satellite imagery and USGS data.
(SIB35, $12.99)
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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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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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Marine Mammals of Alaska
• Kate Wynne
• FIELD GUIDE
• BEST SELLER
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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)
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Marine Mammals of the Eastern North Pacific
• Sea Grant Alaska
• Pieter Folkens
• FIELD GUIDE
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This 8-panel waterproof card illustrates Alaska's whales, dolphins, sea otters and seals.
(ALA143, $8.95)
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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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Nature: Bears: Walking with Giants, Grizzlies of Siberia
• Nature
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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)
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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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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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The Reindeer People, Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
• Piers Vitebsky
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• NEW
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An anthropologist, Vitebsky captures the hardships, challenges and routines of everyday life on the taiga of northeastern Siberia in this portrait of the Eveny people.
(SIB48, $15.95)
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River of No Reprieve, Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death and Destiny
• Jeffrey Tayler
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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In his fifth book and the first back in Russia since Siberian Dawn, Tayler rafts 2,400 miles down the Lena from near Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. It's gifted, no-holds-barred portrait of the region, its beleaguered and eccentric inhabitants, and the difficulties of travel in the remotest regions.
(SIB53, $14.95)
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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's Far East, A Region at Risk
• Judith Thornton
• Charles Ziegler
• HISTORY
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These 18 review articles, all by leading scholars on the region, offer a detailed analysis of economic and political conditions since the collapse of the Soviet Union, focusing particularly on the strategic importance of the Russian Far East.
(RUS205, $30.00)
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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, A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development
• Josh Newell
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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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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The Russian's World, Life and Language
• Geneva Gerhart
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A classic, scholarly introduction to Russian language, literature, history, and culture, from nineteenth century literature to contemporary society.
(RUS320, $39.95)
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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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Steller's History of Kamchatka
• Georg Wilhelm Steller
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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)
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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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To a Distant Island
• James McConkey
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A transporting tale combining exquisite language and insightful commentary on Chekhov and his remarkable journey in 1890 from Moscow to Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.
(RUS269, $14.95)
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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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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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Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond
• Theodore Levin
• Valentina Suzukei
• MUSIC
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An in-depth study of the hauntingly beautiful throat singing of Tuva and Central Asia, accompanied by a combination DVD and CD music sampler. Levin (A Hundred Thousand Fools of Gold) follows Huun-Huur-Tu and other singers to the West.
(SIB51, $35.00)
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Where the Sea Breaks its Back
• Corey Ford
• EXPLORATION
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Ford paints a vivid portrait of Georg Steller and his first encounter with the wildlife of the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and Alaskan coast in this gripping tale of Bering's 1741 Expedition.
(ALA07, $14.95)
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White Sky, Black Ice
• Stan Jones
• MYSTERY
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In this first rate murder mystery state trooper Nathan Active returns to Chukchi from Anchorage to confront a memorable cast of characters -- and figure out why two young men have killed themselves.
(ALA164, $13.00)
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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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