Author: Valentin Rasputin
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: siberia
Number of Pages: 438
Published: 1997-10-29
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0810115751
ISBN-13: 9780810115750
This work offers an account of the Russians’ 400 years of experience in Siberia. Rasputin looks at the the peculiar physical and character traits of the Siberian Russian type, and at the gap between dreams and reality that have plagued Russians in Siberia.
Author: M.P. Price
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Keywords: siberia
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-05-08
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1406729973
ISBN-13: 9781406729979
Originally published in 1912. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Ann Halam
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Keywords: novel, siberia
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-06-14
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0385746504
ISBN-13: 9780385746502
When Sloe was tiny, her Papa disappeared and she and her mama went to live in a prison camp in the snowy north, in a time and place when there are no more wild animals. Mama’s crime: teaching science, and her dedication to the hope that the lost animal species can be reborn. To Sloe, Mama’s secret work is magic, as enchanting as Mama’s tales of a bright city across the ice where they will be free. Years later, Sloe is sent to a prison school, and Mama disappears. At 13, Sloe escapes, pursued by a mysterious man. With only hope to keep her going, Sloe sets out on a solitary 1000-mile jou
Author: Colin Thubro
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: siberia
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 006095373X
ISBN-13: 9780060953737
In Siberia explores a region of astonishments, where "white cranes dance on the permafrost, where a great city floats lost among the ice floes, where mammoths sleep under glaciers." Colin Thubron’s latest chronicle also delivers its subject from rumor into reality. An expanse larger than the entire United States, Siberia is undoubtedly a country of contrasts, which elicits from the author both awe and melancholy. Here on one hand is a northern wilderness "shattered into a jigsaw of ponds and streams," and on the other a "black detritus of factories and ruins." No less memorable than the
Authors:Per Petterson, Anne Bor,
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, siberia
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312428995
ISBN-13: 9780312428990
Born into a troubled family in a Danish seaside town, the heroine of To Siberia clings to her brother, and he to her, with a desperate devotion. The novel tells the story of their powerful bond and their agonizing separation. Neglected by their parents, the two wander the streets of their village as young children, dreaming of a different life. The sister fantasizes about escaping to Siberia, but that dream seems ever more remote as her brother becomes a young man and disappears into the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation. Their separation begins years of wandering for her, and Pe
Author: Harry De Windt
Publisher: Karig Press
Keywords: siberia
Number of Pages: 530
Published: 2009-05-27
List price: $33.45
ISBN-10: 1444638661
ISBN-13: 9781444638660
This early works was originally published in 1892, The author has endeavoured to make the following account of the prisons of Russia and Western Siberia as plain and matter of fact as possible, without any attempt at colouring or romance. Fully illustrated throughout it is a comprehensive and informative look at the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900’s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Ian Frazier
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: siberia, travels
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2010-10-12
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0374278725
ISBN-13: 9780374278724
A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great PlainsIn Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the forty-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. The book brims with Mongols, half-crazed Orthodox archpriests, fur seekers, ambassadors of the czar bound for Peking, tea caravans, German scientists, American prospe
