siberia

The author describes his escape with a small group of fellow prisoners from a Soviet labor camp in 1941 and their subsequent trek out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.

During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

Presents photographs and information about Siberian tigers, looking at where they live, their families and behaviors, eating and hunting habits, and the dangers they face.

Describes an expedition to uncover and study a frozen mammoth in Siberia.