Irina Pantaeva
Born in Ulan-Ude, on the banks of Lake Baikal in Siberia, Irina Pantaeva inherited a love of the arts from her family. She traveled to New York in 1994 and became a fashion industry sensation, appearing in ad ... [... more]
Home and Garden Television |
Karl Tobien
Karl Tobien was born in 1956 just outside a Soviet slave labor camp in the northernmost region of Siberia. He lived in Russia with his mother, father, and grandmother until he was two-and-a-half years old, after which he lived in Hanover, West ... [... more]
Random House |
An Introduction To Shamanism
Tribal cultures have still commonly retained their Shamanic practices and Shamanism is also found in Australia, Siberia, Europe, Africa and South America amongst other places. The word Shaman comes from Siberia and has variously been translated ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Colin Thubron
Colin Thubron is the prizewinning, bestselling author of several travel books. In Siberia, his most recent volume, is the final book in a masterful trilogy about the Russian landmass, following Where Nights Are ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Lonicera Kamtschatica
Honeyberry is a deciduous shrub that is native to eastern Siberia. It typically grows to 3-4’ tall and as wide. It is particularly valued for producing an edible blueberry-like fruit about 4 weeks before blueberries begin to ripen. Small, ... [... more]
Missouri Botanical Garden |
Barbed Wire & Babushkas: A River Odyssey Across Siberia
 Kayak-a-yada An odyssey is, according to Merriam-Webster, 1: a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune, or 2: an intellectual or spiritual wandering or quest. Grogan's account of his friend's and his kayak trip on the Amur fits ... [... more]
$16.50
Amazon.com |
Doris Kearns Goodwin
This handsomely illustrated volume commemorates Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday and gives rare insight into the President who shook the world—and whose words and example endure today in nations from Siberia to Mexico to Pakistan. This is the ... [... more]
Random House |
Siberia and the Soviet Far East: Unmasking the Myths
Today there remain relatively few areas of the planet Earth where man rarely takes a step, casts an eye, or disturbs the natural environment, but most of Siberia is like that. For the time being, but not for long. Siberia, according to some accounts, ... [... more]
$10.95
Amazon.com |
The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and ...
Award-winning author Sharon Hudgins takes readers on a personal adventure through the Asian side of Russia-from the "high-rise villages" of Vladivostok and Irkutsk to Lake Baikal and the Trans-Siberian Railroad route. Join her as a guest ... [... more]
$19.95
Amazon.com |
A Journey In Southern Siberia: The Mongols Their ...
1909. Jeremiah Curtin was a linguist and folk tale collector. Contents: The Mongols; My Journey to the Buriats; A Walk and Talk with Andrei Mihailovich; The Horse Sacrifice; Annoying Delays; A Search for Old Men who Know Mongol Folklore; A Birthday in ... [... more]
$33.95
Amazon.com |
Through Siberia by Accident: A Small Slice of Autobiography
Through Siberia by Accident is an account of a journey that didn't happen-and what happened instead. While still thousands of miles from her original destination, Ussuriland in the Russian Far East, Dervla Murphy found herself stymied by multiple minor ... [... more]
$37.63
Amazon.com |
Esther Hautzig
Esther Hautzig is the author of many books for children and adults. The Endless Steppe is an autobiographical account of her childhood in Siberia. It was a 1969 National Book Award nominee and an ALA Notable Children ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
