siberia

"After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day. In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man's harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history's most heinous human rights abuses"--.

In the 1860's the Russian-American Telegraph Co. set out to connect the United States and Europe using lines running through the Bering Strait and Siberia. The expedition failed. But it marked one of the first explorations of the vast Siberian wilderness.

Jeffrey Tayler chronicles his 2,400-mile journey down the Lena River in a custom-built boat, describing the people, sites, beauty, and violence he encountered along the way.

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.

A historical travelogue in which Ian Frazier explores the geography, resources, native peoples, history, climate, and other aspects of Siberia at the end of the Soviet Union.