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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia by Piers Vitebsky Publisher Comments Since the last Ice Age, the reindeer's extraordinary adaptation to cold has sustained human life over vast tracts of the earth's surface, providing meat, fur, and transport. Images carved into rocks and tattooed on the skin of mummies hint at ancient... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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In Siberia by Colin Thubron Publisher Comments Chapter One Hauntings The ice-fields are crossed for ever by a man in chains. In the farther distance, perhaps, a herd of reindeer drifts, or a hunter makes a shadow on the snow. But that is all. Siberia: it fills one twelfth of the land-mass of the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld by Nicolai. Trans. By Jonathan Hunt Lilin Publisher Comments In a contested, lawless region between Moldova and Ukraine known as Transnistria, a tightly knit group of "honest criminals"--exiled there by Stalin-live according to strict codes of ritualized respect and fierce loyalty. Here, tattoos tell the story of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.72 New - Hardcover
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River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler traveled some 2,400 miles down the Lena River, from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, re-creating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He was searching for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Siberia by Colin Thubron Publisher Comments In a unique and compelling travel book, the author of The Lost Heart of Asia tours a region of Russia that has long captured the Western imagination, revealing the breathtaking natural beauty, tragic history, and vast spaces that make up Siberia. Reprint.... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia by Piers Vitebsky Publisher Comments Cambridge anthropologist Piers Vitebsky, the first westerner to live with the Eveny of Siberia since the Russian revolution, brings readers an extraordinary case of survival in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. of photos.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Women of Izmaelovka: A Soviet Union Collective Farm in Siberia by Alexey Vinogradov Book News Annotation Vinogradov (archaeology, historical sociology, and cultural heritage; St. Petersburg State U.) and Pleysier (history, Piedmont College, Georgia, US) present accounts by seven women who lived on the collective farm that was formed by the Soviet... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia by Anna Reid Publisher Comments The fascinating history of an unknown people A vivid mixture of history and reporting, The Shamans Coat tells the story of some of the worlds least-known peoplesthe indigenous tribes of Siberia. Russias equivalent to the Native Americans or Australian... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Siberia: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination) by A J Haywood Publisher Comments Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their "colony" in North Asia, they heard rumors about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Circumpolar Research Series, #6: Neotraditionalism in the Russian North: Indigenous Peoples and the Legacy of Perestroika by Alexandr Pika Publisher Comments Based on a report submitted to the Russian parliament in 1994 on the cultural, political, and economic issues guiding Russian state policy toward Siberian indigenous peoples. A team of seven translators in North America have edited and annotated it and... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest & Tragic History of Siberia by Benson Bobrick Book News Annotation A reprint of Bobrick's well-received history of the grim land. Originally published in 1982 by Simon & Schuster. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Siberia Bound Chasing the American Dream by Alexander Blakely Book News Annotation This memoir recounts the author's experiences as an American capitalist in 1990s Siberia. Although he founded a company that brought him wealth, he found it hard to ignore the economic devastation that capitalistic "reform" brought in the four years... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia by Peter Matthiessen List Price $18.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Settlers on the Edge: Identity and Modernization on Russia's Arctic Frontier by Niobe Thompson List Price $43.50 Your price: $32.95 New - Trade Paper
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Feeding the Russian Fur Trade: Provisionment of the Okhotsk Seaboard & the Kamchatka Peninsula, 1639-1856 by James R Gibson Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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East of the Sun the Conquest & Settlem by Benson Bobrick Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-516) and index.... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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East of the Sun :the epic conquest and tragic history of Siberia by Benson Bobrick Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-516) and index.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Russia's Far East: A Region at Risk by Judith Thornton Book News Annotation Eighteen articles explore the political, economic, and geostrategic contexts of the Far Eastern region of Russia. Presented by Thornton (economics, U. of Washington) and Ziegler (political science, U. of Louisville) the articles discuss such topics as... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Syberia by Zyburtowicz Your price: $9.48 Used - Hardcover
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