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The Shaman's Coat, A Native History of Siberia  •  Anna Reid HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES Reid, a talented journalist and intrepid traveler, interviewed hunters, reindeer herders, storytellers and dozens of other original inhabitants across Siberia for this eye-opening book. With chapters on the Khant, Buryat, Tuvans, Sakha, Ainu and Chukchi people. (SIB28, $13.00)
In Siberia  •  Colin Thubron TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES • FAVORITE One of our favorite writers, Thubron captures in dazzling prose the contradictions, beauty, personality and hardship of this huge land. Thubron journeyed 15,000 miles along the Trans-Siberian Railway, up the Yenisei River to the Arctic, into the mountains abutting Mongolia, to Lake Baikal -- the world's oldest and deepest lake -- and east to Magadan and the Pacific. (SIB14, $14.95)
Kamchatka Peninsula Map  •  Avacha Bay 2003 •  MAP A full-color map of Kamchatka, based on satellite imagery and USGS data, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. With good topographic detail, contour lines at 200 M intervals, bathymetry and key features. The reverse features satellite images of volcanoes and reserves. (SIB35, $12.99)

Kamchatka Peninsula Map  •  ITMB    •  This double-sided, informative map, at a scale of 1:1,200,000 and 1:800,000, includes inset maps of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Geyser Valley and the Commander Islands. (RUS322, $10.95)
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)
Kamchatka, A Journal & Guide  •  Diana Gleadhill   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handsomely illustrated handbook introduces the nature, wildlife, history and people of Kamchatka in essays, a travel diary, maps and hundreds of color photographs. (ARC201, $24.95)
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 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)
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)
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)
Bering, The Russian Discovery of America  •  Orcutt Frost   • HISTORY  •  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)
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)
Russia's Far East, A Region at Risk  •  Judith Thornton  •  Charles Ziegler   • HISTORY  •  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)
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)
The Museum at the End of the World, Encounters in the Russian Far East  •  Alexia Bloch  •  Laurel Kendall   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In this astute book, two anthropologists recount their 1998 journey in the footsteps of Franz Boas and the ambitious Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902), interweaving their own travels with history and ethnography. With chapters on travels in Chukotka, Magadan, Anadyr, Khabarovsk, Petropoavlovsk and Esso in Kamchatka's central volcanic range. (SIB39, $28.95)
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)
The Russian Far East, A History  •  John J. Stephan   • HISTORY  •  The first history of Russia's least-known region in any language, this comprehensive book is a readable, scholarly history of the Russian Far East from prehistory to the break-up of the Soviet Union. (RUS34, $31.95)
A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire  •  Anton Chekhov   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  By tramp steamer, carriage and horse, Chekhov journeyed to farthermost Siberia and the Russian Far East in the 1890s. This is a brief selection from his time in Baikal and Sakhalin. (RUS350, $10.00)
Dersu the Trapper  •  V.K. Arseniev  •  Malcolm Burr   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  A mesmerizing account of adventure, exploration and friendship in the Russian Far East. Arseniev, a Russian captain who explored much of the region north of Vladivostok at the turn-of-the-century, forged a friendship with the taciturn Dersu, a nomadic Goldi hunter. (SIB24, $16.00)
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)
Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer  •  Bill Gifford   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  (RUS352, $25.00)
North to the Orient  •  Anne Morrow Lindbergh   • EXPLORATION  •  A classic account of pioneering aviation, this wonderfully written memoir includes adventures in Petropavlovsk and the Russian Far East, Japan and the Yangtze. (ARC36, $12.00)
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)
Steller's Island: Adventures of a Pioneer Naturalist in Alaska  •  Dean Littlepage   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The riveting tale of Vitus Bering's great six-year expedition from Kamchatka to Alaska -- and of naturalist Geog Steller's celebrated discoveries in Russia and the New World. (ALA242, $17.95)
Tent Life in Siberia  •  George Kennan  •  Larry McMurtry   • EXPLORATION  •  Kennan's spirited account of his adventures among the people, little-known cultures and snow-capped volcanoes of Kamchatka and the Russian Far East, originally published in 1871. (RUS142, $14.95)
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)
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)
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)
To a Distant Island  •  James McConkey   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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)
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)
White Sky, Black Ice  •  Stan Jones   • MYSTERY  •  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)
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)
Steller's History of Kamchatka  •  Georg Wilhelm Steller   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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)
The Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Region of Wonders  •  Terry Johnson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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)
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)
Marine Mammals of the Eastern North Pacific  •  Sea Grant Alaska  •  Pieter Folkens   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This 8-panel waterproof card illustrates Alaska's whales, dolphins, sea otters and seals. (ALA143, $8.95)