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TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD
Worth Looking For
Thirty Years in the Golden North
• Jan Welzl
EXPLORATION •
1932 •
HARD COVER
• 336 PAGES
The spirited memor of the Czech adventurer and folk hero who set out from Moravia across Siberia to the Bering Sea, where he says he lived in the New Siberian Islands. Traveling by wagon and sled, he helped build the Trans-Siberian Railway, spent time on a whaling ship and learned to live like the Inuit. Orginally published in 1932, Welzl dictated these outlandish tales to two journalists back home to raise money to return to the Arctic. Welzl made it back as far as Dawson City, where he died at age 80.
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The Trans-Siberian Railway
• Olaf and Anne Meinhardt
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2008 •
HARD COVER
• 191 PAGES
• COMING IN
Some 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) of track and seven time zones! Luxury trains and simple wagons, endless taiga, and the clearest lake in the world: a trip with the Trans-Siberian Railway promises many highlights. Anne and Olaf Meinhardt spent six months traveling through the gorgeous landscape of Siberia towards Mongolia and China, have tasted borscht, picnicked at the shores of Lake Baikal, and strolled through dreamy birch forests. Impressive photos and special reports tell the tale of the expanse and beauty of the different landscapes.
(RUS402, $70.00) |
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The Most Intentional City, St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great
• George E. Munro
HISTORY •
2008 •
HARD COVER
• 372 PAGES
• COMING IN
Widely hailed as perhaps the most intensively planned city of the early modern age, St. Petersburg, established by Peter the Great in 1703, soon developed in many ways beyond the purview of its planners. By the reign of Catherine the Great, the city assumed many of the characteristics and forms that mark it to this day. This pioneering study balances the tensions between planning and indigenous growth. It makes use of rich and varied unpublished sources, from archives in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Iaroslavl', as well as contemporary published accounts in several languages and a wide secondary literature to examine the city's administration, economic life, and demographic and social realities. It is the first study to probe so deeply into the city's life. The result is an unprecedented look at Russian urban life in the last third of the eighteenth century. A popular study leader, George E. Munro teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.
(RUS401, $69.50) |
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The Big Red Train Ride
• Eric Newby
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1989 •
PAPER
• 267 PAGES
• COMING IN
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. With photographs by the Newbys.
(RUS140, $24.95) |
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On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers
• Kate Marsden
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
• COMING IN
Certainly one of the most outlandish of the Victorian travelogues, this classic chronicles Marsden's 3,000-mile journey from St. Petersburg to the Viluisk leper colony in Siberia. Marsden, who had nursed Russian soldiers in Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish war, seems to have been fired by missionary zeal, dispensing religion, tea and bandages as though they were all three medical supplies. Her book is a lively tale of adventure and a fascinating report on Siberia (not to mention 19-century attitudes toward leprosy). First published in 1893.
(RUS138, $16.95) |
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Irkutsk, Lake Baikal Map
• Russian Government
MAP
• COMING IN
A city map of Irkutsk, with an odd map of Lake Baikal (but not the surrounding roads or topography). Published in Irkutsk, key place names are transliterated with some features in Cyrillic only. Travel information is presented in Cyrillic and English.
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Baikal, Sacred Sea of Siberia
• Boyd Norton
• Peter Matthiessen
NATURAL HISTORY •
1995 •
PAPER
• COMING IN
The handsome diary of an expedition, combining 50 striking color photographs by Boyd Norton and illuminating text by the incomparable Peter Matthiessen, a portrait of the world's oldest and deepest freshwater lake and the industrialization that threatens its future. It's as big as Belgium. With excerpts on the history and biology of Baikal and translations of Buryat myths and folklore. A portion of the royalties go to Baikal Watch.
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