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The Big Red Train Ride • Eric Newby • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • OUT OF PRINT • Newby's marvelous account of speeding across Russia with wife Wanda on the Trans-Siberian from Moscow to Khabarovsk recalls the joys, frustrations and oddities of remote Russia during the Brezhnev years. (RUS140, $18.95)
On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers • Kate Marsden • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • OUT OF PRINT • Marsden's account of her 1890 mission of mercy across Russia to a Siberian leper colony. (RUS138, $16.95)
Irkutsk, Lake Baikal Map • Russian Government • OUT OF PRINT • An Irkutsk city map with a map of Baikal (but not surrounding roads or land) on the reverse. Published in Irkutsk. (SIB17, $10.00)
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)
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)
Baikal, Sacred Sea of Siberia • Boyd Norton • Peter Matthiessen • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • A lyrical portrait of the world's oldest and deepest freshwater lake. (SIB02, $18.00)

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