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The author of In Putin's Footsteps chronicles a deadly trek through the icy Russian region known for gulags and isolation.
In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, recreating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He is searching for primeval beauty and a respite from the corruption, violence, and self-destructive urges...
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"When they arrived in the former Soviet Union in 1993 without a decent map or guide, four Americans found themselves in the hands of ten Latvians, a fearless crew capable of running Class V and VI rivers in homemade equipment, including rafts fashioned from germ-warfare suits, and life jackets made from old wine bladders and soccer balls. These were the people who would take them on a white-knuckled river trip down Siberia's Bashkaus - one of the...
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"Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos--grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble, Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great,...
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St. Martin's Press
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2023.
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"After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day. In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is a...
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Skyhorse Publishing
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[2016]
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English
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"In the 1860s, the Russian-American Telegraph Company set out to telegraphically connect the United States and Europe using lines running through the Bering Strait and Siberia. The failed expedition marked one of the first explorations of the vast Siberian wilderness, and George Kennan's tale of a seemingly endless land filled with wildlife and nomadic tribes is as entertaining today as it was 140 years ago. With biting humor and poignant insight,...
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Eastern European studies volume no. 21
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Texas A&M University Press
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[2003]
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"Travel to post-Soviet Siberia and the Russian Far East with author Sharon Hudgins as she takes readers on a personal adventure through the Asian side of Russia - an area closed to most Westerners and many Russians prior to the 1990s. Even today, few people from the West have ridden the Trans-Siberian railroad in winter, stood on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, feasted with the Siberian Buryats, or lived in the "high-rise villages" of Vladivostok...
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ArtHouse Corporation
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2009
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Paulo Coelho takes viewers on a magic journey aboard the legendary train that connects Moscow with Vladivostok. Coelho tours Siberia aboard the train, seeing majestic and enigmatic sights filled with history and enchantment.