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Last of the Breed
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Louis L'Amour
In this thriller, a Native American Air Force pilot must rely on his wits and survival skills after escaping from a Russian prison as he begins a long, lonely trek across the Bering Strait to freedom in the U.S.
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Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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Slavomir Rawicz
In this gripping account, the author recounts how, in 1941, he and six fellow prisoners escaped from a Siberian labor camp and trekked across frozen Siberia, China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and finally over the Himalayas to safety in India. Without a map or a compass, carrying nothing but an ax, a knife, and a tiny amount of food, they walked for ...
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
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Esther Hautzig
Hautzig tells how she was wrenched from her life in a wealthy Jewish family in Poland and deported to a Siberian village. In 1941, when she was ten, she, her mother, and grandmother were captured by the Russians and shipped by cattle-car to a forced-labor camp. There, the three of them manage to stay together and for four years survive the ...
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The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
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James Palmer
In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternberg. An anti-Semitic fanatic with a penchant for Eastern mysticism and a hatred of communists, Baron Ungern-Sternberg took over Mongolia in 1920 with a ragtag force of White Russians, Siberians, Japanese, and native ...
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Ghost
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John Ringo
Former SEAL Michael Harmon, Team Name "Ghost", retired for service injuries, is not enjoying college life. But things are about to change, if not for the better. When he sees a kidnapping a series of, at the time logical, decisions leave him shot to ribbons and battling a battalion of Syrian commandos with only the help of three naked co-eds who ...
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Polar Star
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Martin Cruz Smith
On "psychiatric rehabilitation" in Siberia, Arkady Renko is exiled on Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship which trawls the freezing waters from Siberia to Alaska. His movements are being shadowed by those who know his past. Then Renko is given a chance to regain his freedom.
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Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
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John Scott
"Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked." -- Ronald Grigor Suny "A genuine grassroots account of Soviet life -- a type of book of which there have been far too few." -- William Henry ...
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Kolymsky Heights
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Lionel Davidson
"Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking ...
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Escape from a Siberian Labor Camp and His 3-Year Trek to Freedom
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Josef M Bauer
Reminiscent of Slavomir Rawicz's classic The Long Walk, an amazing narrative of escape and survival.
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The Draco Tavern
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Larry Niven
From the mind of "New York Times" bestselling author Niven, come 26 tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering place called Draco Tavern, collected for the first time in one volume.
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The Big Red Train Ride
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Eric Newby
Written before the fall of communism, Newby's travelogue exposes the bureaucracy and bad food behind an eight-day journey on the trans-Siberian railroad.
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As far as my feet will carry me
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Josef M Bauer
Originally published in 1955, As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me has seen international success ever since. It has been translated into fifteen languages, sold more than 12 million copies, and is the basis for an award-winning German entry at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Recounting an incredible real-life adventure, it tracks the destiny of German ...
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Entering the Circle: Ancient Secrets of Siberian Wisdom Discovered by a Russian Psychiatrist
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Olga Kharitidi
When Russian psychiatrist Olga Kharitidi set out on a journey into the Altai mountains of Siberia, she unearthed the ancient wellspring of the world's mystical traditions, discovered the secrets of healing and magic, and encountered revolutionary teachings about the true nature of the human soul.
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In Siberia
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Colin Thubron
Faith, politics, vodka, and an indescribably expansive mass of land are some of the topics that drive Thubron's history-laden travelogue of Siberia, in the same way that his will, curiosity, and the generosity of strangers drive him across the barren land. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
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Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express
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Stuart M Kaminsky
Inside the Moscow Police Department, madness regins. Inspectors Karpo and Zelach enter the underground world of post-punk rock clubs searching for clues to the disappearance of an anti-Semitic rock star who happens to be the son of one of Moscow's most powerful Jewish citizens. Then there is the young woman, dubbed the Phantom of the Underground ...
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Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway
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Simon Richmond
Part of the Lonely Planet Country Guide Series. Best-selling and inspirationalguide to the Trans-Siberian Railway, covering Russia, Mongolia and China.
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The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia
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Anna Reid
Steeped in history, ethnography and reportage, THE SHAMAN'S COAT tells the story of the indigenous people of Siberia. This vast expanse of land, much of it barely populated jungle and forest, has a population of just one million. Medieval Russians thought the people who lived amidst these unnerving wastes froze to the ground in winter, spent the ...
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The Princess of Siberia: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles
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Christine Sutherland
Beautiful, cultivated, the daughter of a hero of the Napoleonic wars, Maria Volkonsky had been married only one year when in 1825 the tsar sentenced her husband to life imprisonment in Siberia. Despite her family's and the tsar's opposition, Maria was determined to join her husband in exile. She was more than halfway there when the tsar decreed ...
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East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest & Tragic History of Siberia
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Benson Bobrick
In this enthralling, richly illustrated work of panoramic scope and brilliance, Bobrick interweaves the march of great events with indelible portraits of the men and women affected by them. From the great 18th-century explorations to the fall of Gorbachev, Bobrick brings the strange and terrible saga of Siberia to the page with vivid immediacy. ...
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Dead Hand
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Harold Coyle
A fearless team of NATO special-ops commandos are air-dropped into Siberia in the aftermath of an asteroid impact that has devastated the region. Their mission: to take out General Likatchev, a nationalist lunatic who has commandeered a Cold War era nuclear defense system that could wipe out half of the global population.
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Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia
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Farley Mowat
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The house of the dead
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Based on the four years he spent in a Siberian prison camp, Dostoevsky presents the lives and tales of his fellow convicts in a vivid documentary style.
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River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny
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Jeffrey Tayler
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 down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, recreating a journey ...
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The People's Act of Love
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James Meek
Siberia 1919. In the outer reaches of a country recently torn apart by civil war live a small Christian sect and its enigmatic leader, Balashov. Stationed nearby is a regiment of Czech soldiers, desperate to get home but on the losing side if the recent conflict. Uncertainty prevails. Into this isolated community trudges Samarin, an escapee from ...
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Chosen by the Spirits: Following Your Shamanic Calling
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Sarangerel
Mongolian shamanic tradition maintains that all true shamans are called by the spirits. "Chosen by the Spirits" provides the serious student with practical advice and hands-on techniques for recognizing and acknowledging a shamanic calling, welcoming and embodying the spirits, journeying to the spirit world, and healing both people and places.
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