Divided Twins: 2alaska/Siberia

by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Book Overview

This book is in good condition. There are some scratch marks and smudges on the dust cover, not to niticible nor bad. The pages and binding are beautifull. Nothing wrong with them. Shop from thousands... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670819514
• ISBN13: 9780670819515
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A stunning photographic document

Working each in his own country, but with a unity of vision, Russian writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko and American photographer Boyd Norton produced this amazing collection. Hundreds of photos of Eastern Siberia (mostly the Bering Sea region, which was closed to foreign visitors in most of Soviet times) and Alaska bring out wildlife, people, human culture and landscapes, and what photos! The colours and the sense of space are glorious - it's obvious that Yevtushenko is no mean photographer - and even if it's full of stunning scenery, you never feel that the camera is going for the "postcard beautiful". It just taps the power of the surroundings. Some of the pictures have an archaic feeling and reminds one that they would have looked like this if taken a million years ago, but in most, man is at the centre - people working, looking at the landscape, or their houses scattered around the place. Yevtushenko also brings a powerful series of portraits of people of his Siberian hometown; they have a quiet dignity and sense of of experience. There's also a bunch of his poems about the people of Siberia, of his childhood, and of the historical tragedies this country has witnessed ("The accidentless captain", "A personal letter from the Generalissimo" - i.e. Stalin). The poems are printed in Russian original and in a vivid English translation.The idea of the book was no doubt to serve as a gesture of peace, and to show the common humanity of Russians, native Chukchee and Americans. It serves this purpose, and the images are, well, unforgettable. It should be reprinted.

Beautifully Captured, the wilds of Siberia and Alaska

Exceptional book showing the similarities and differences between both the scenery and the people (habitats) of old world Siberia and New World Alaska. I bought this volume new several years ago when I was trying to learn a little Russian prior to a trip to Moscow. It didn't help but I would not part with the book.