siberia

Contains two novels by nineteenth-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, including "The House of the Dead" which details the horrors experienced by a man imprisoned for murdering his wife; and "Poor Folk," in which Makar and Varvara, second cousins who live across the street from each other, exchange letters in which they describe their terrible living conditions.

A retelling of a traditional Siberian tale in which a lonely moon unsuccessfully tries to carry a young girl off into the sky and then must offer many timeless gifts to win her forgiveness.

Relates information about the Tunguska meteorite that landed in Russia in 1908, focusing on past and present scientists and their research expeditions to the sight of the landing.

A young girl uses her skills as a hunter to avenge her father's death and to escape her evil stepmother.

The author and his identical twin brother, Eske, went on an expedition in 1993 to northeastern Siberia with a group of researchers and a film crew to study the Yukaghirs, an indigenous group of hunters who live in the northern part of the Russian Republic of Sakha. The Yukaghuirs live remotely and are the earliest indigenous people known to live in northeastern Sibera. Their language has no evident link to any other known language group. They also have never domesticated animals as a food source and survive exclusively by hunting and trading furs, mostly sable. Their life is hard in post-Soviet Russia and they are underpaid and are unable to get crucial deliveries of food, weapons, and ammunition. The author wished to help and wanted to organize the Yukaghir hunters into a cooperative society. The author's project did not go as planned.

Recounts Clemens Forell's escape from a forced labour camp in Siberia, describing how the German soldier managed to escape and his three-year trek across the wastes of Siberia in search of freedom.

in 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk where hunger, cold, untended wounds. untreated illness, and daily executions were everyday fare. Their route took them thousands of miles on foot---out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India and freedom.

Examines the still-unexplained mystery of the cataclysmic explosion that occurred in Siberia in 1908.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and dangers faced by the large, rare cats that live in Siberia and Manchuria.