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Silverland, A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals
by Dervla Murphy
- TRAVEL NARRATIVE
- 2008
- PAPER
- 288 PAGES
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Our favorite gallivanting Irish grandmother packs her woolies and heads off on a midwinter jaunt across Siberia on a typically adventurous outing, this time by train and with a suitcase she dubs the dog, not her usual bicycle (though she does get some cycling in back in Moscow).
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The Museum at the End of the World, Encounters in the Russian Far East
by Alexia Bloch | Laurel Kendall
- CULTURAL PORTRAIT
- 2004
- PAPER
- 231 PAGES
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, Petropavlovsk and Esso in Kamchatka's central volcanic range. (SIB39, $29.95)
by Dervla Murphy
- TRAVEL NARRATIVE
- 2006
- PAPER
- 302 PAGES
After wrenching her knee on the Trans-Siberian, the indomitable Murphy changes her plans: in lieu of a trip across Russia on her bicycle Pushkin, she explores the area around Lake Baikal, where, naturally, the plucky grandmother takes a swim. (SIB50, $16.95)
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