Siberia: A Cultural History

by Anthony Haywood and Anthony Haywood

Book Overview

Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their "colony" in North Asia, they heard rumors about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded from cold. This region of frozen tundra, endless forest, and humming steppe between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean was a vast, strange, and frightening paradise. It was Siberia.
Siberia is a cradle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199754187
• ISBN13: 9780199754182
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"