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To Siberia: A Novel
I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. On that 9th April we woke to the roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we could see the black iron crosses painted on the underside of their wings when we leaned out of the windows and looked up. In this exquisite novel, readers will find the crystalline prose and depth of feeling they adored in Out Stealing Horses, a literary sensation of 2007. A brother and sister are forced ever more closely together after the suicide of their grandfather. Their parents’ neglect leaves them wandering the streets of their small Danish village. The sister dreams of escaping to Siberia, but it seems increasingly distant as she helplessly watches her brother become more and more involved in resisting the Nazis. .
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
Exiled to SiberiaIn June 1942, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians They are "capitalists -- enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia.
For five years, Ester and her family live in exile, weeding potato fields and working in the mines, struggling for enough food and clothing to stay alive. Only the strength of family sustains them and gives them hope for the future. .
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The Space of Love (The Ringing Cedars, Book 3)
In 1994 a Siberian elder told the entrepreneur Vladimir Megre a fascinating story about the "ringing cedars" - trees respected from the Biblical times for their power to re-connect Man with the Divine. The elder told him where such a ringing cedar was growing in the taiga. Vladimir Megre set out on an expedition to find the tree. But his encounter with the elder's granddaughter Anastasia transformed him so deeply that he abandoned his commercial plans and, penniless, went to Moscow to write a book about the spiritual insights she shared with him. What happened next thrilled and inspired millions! With no advertisement other than word of mouth, the Ringing Cedars books have sold over 10 million copies in Russian alone and have been translated into 20 languages, making Vladimir Megre one of Russia's most widely read authors. Inspired by the Ringing Cedars, thousands of people are now planting trees, changing their lifestyle and, in search for a spiritual re-connection with the Earth, relocating to new ecovillages that are sprouting all over Russia and beyond. Thousands of readers felt a huge creative upsurge and started writing poetry and songs and doing paintings. Today these books, which read like a fascinating novel, have an authenticity of a documentary account and present spiritual insights of incredible depth are believed to be a most significant masterpiece of Russian literature and one of the most important revelations in the history of humanity. Spanning dozens of subjects from child rearing to gardening, from adventure to the meaning of human life, from megalithic science to breastfeeding, and from sex relationships to the meaning of food, they present an incredibly beautiful and equally practical vision of humanity's spiritual connection to Nature that helps us understand ourselves and heal our Earth. "SPACE OF LOVE" HIGHLIGHTS: Anastasia's unique approach to rearing children in nature. The story of an armed assault on Anastasia..
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The Book of Kin (The Ringing Cedars Series, Book 6)
In 1994 a Siberian elder told Vladimir Megre a fascinating story about the "ringing cedars" - trees respected from the Biblical times for their power to re-connect Man with the Divine. The elder told him where such a ringing cedar was growing in the taiga. Vladimir Megre set out on an expedition to find it. But his encounter with the elder's granddaughter Anastasia transformed him so deeply that he abandoned his commercial plans and wrote a book about the spiritual insights she shared with him. What happened next thrilled and inspired millions! With no advertisement other than word of mouth, the Ringing Cedars books have sold over 10 million copies in Russian alone and have been translated into 20 languages, making Vladimir Megre one of Russia's most widely read authors. Inspired by the Ringing Cedars, thousands of people are now planting trees, changing their lifestyle and, in search for a spiritual re-connection with the Earth, relocating to new ecovillages that are sprouting all over Russia and beyond. Thousands of readers felt a huge creative upsurge and started writing poetry and songs. Today these books, which read like a fascinating novel, have an authenticity of a documentary account and present spiritual insights of incredible depth are believed to be a most significant masterpiece of Russian literature and one of the most important revelations in the history of humanity. Spanning dozens of subjects from child rearing to gardening, from adventure to the meaning of human life, from megalithic science to breastfeeding, and from sex relationships to the meaning of food, they present an incredibly beautiful and equally practical vision of humanity's spiritual connection to Nature that helps us understand ourselves and heal our Earth. "THE BOOK OF KIN" HIGHLIGHTS: Does the way we educate children help them become independent, happy individuals? If not, what is an alternative? What is the real history of humankind, which none of the historians ever uncovered?.
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In Siberia
As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast territory, talking to everyone he encountered about the state of the beauty, whose natural resources have been savagely exploited for decades; a terrain tainted by nuclear waste but filled with citizens who both welcomed him and fed him—despite their own tragic poverty. From Mongoloia to the Artic Circle, from Rasputin's village in the west through tundra, taiga, mountains, lakes, rivers, and finally to a derelict Jewish community in the country's far eastern reaches, Colin Thubron penetrates a little-understood part of the world in a way that no writer ever has. .
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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The Reindeer People: Living With Animals and Spirits in Siberia
In this acclaimed work, the anthropologist Piers Vitebsky offers a unique account of the Eveny, nomads who live in intimate partnership with an extraordinary animal. For centuries reindeer have provided the Eveny with food, fur, transport, and spiritual sustenance, enabling them to survive in the world's coldest inhabited region, the Siberian taiga, where winter ice freezes six feet thick and the temperature drops to ninety-six degrees below zero. The book presents a gallery of unforgettable personalities, including shamans, psychics, wolves, bears, dogs, Communist Party bosses, daredevil aviators, and the spirits of fires and rivers. Based on nearly two decades of fieldwork, The Reindeer People is an enthralling and moving testimony to a Siberian native people's humor and endurance at the ecological limits of human existence..
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Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking
The word "shaman" has been used throughout the history of anthropology to describe indigenous healers around the world. In this outstanding text, Kehoe argues compellingly that the term is misused when applied to practitioners other than those from Siberia, where the term originated. Applying critical thinking techniques as a way of examining assumptions presented as fact, she deconstructs many commonly held notions of what shamanism is and isn't, closely critiquing widely-cited articles and books on the subject. The problems discussed bring up important anthropological questions not limited to the anthropology of religion. How does the ethnographer distance his or her own (usually Western) socialization when describing the empirical reality of a culture? How does the reader of the anthropological literature do the same when analyzing others' writings? Kehoe maintains that critical thinking, long the fundamental method guiding both academic scholarship and pedagogy, helps answer these questions..
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The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East
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 confronted with exotic dishes at Christmas parties, New Year's banquets, Easter dinners, and Siberian festivals-and discover what daily life is really like on Russia's "other side." "Sharon Hudgins has written a vivid and engrossing book about a part of the world that's both geographically and ethnically complex. She's done much to make the unfamiliar familiar."--Larry McMurtry "Rare is the person who can step into the wonderland of Siberia and capture the culture and the spirit of its people. Sharon Hudgins has done that and more. . . . This is a warm, considered, and completely engaging work from start to finish. For those seeking a window into the soul of Siberia, you need look no further."--James A. Cramer, President & CEO, World Learning ". . . an animated examination of grim, grimy, and unpredictably gracious ordinary life in the extrordinary place she calls Absurdistan."-Alfred Friendly, Jr., coauthor, Ecocide in the USSR, and former Newsweek Moscow Bureau Chief.
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