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Author : P. E. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951160374
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Another Look at Early Siberian Postcards written by P. E. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. E.. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951160381
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Great Siberian Way written by P. E.. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1896 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Wirick
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 1846591740
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (465 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Siberian Postcards written by Richard Wirick and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siberia: a vast and ancient territory, a mystery to the world outside its borders. Rick Wirick and his wife have gone to Siberia to adopt a baby girl. Rather than produce a straightforward account of this journey, so profound and personal in itself, Wirick has chosen instead to absorb Siberia, to immerse himself in its history, legends, social reality and natural splendour in order to evoke for his new daughter the grandeur of her birthplace. In one hundred interlocking vignettes, Wirick has created a sophisticated and passionate vision. Personal in conception, unique in structure, One Hundred Siberian Postcards is an inspiring and unusual introduction to a very far-away land. 'Wirick combines the lyrical with the unexpected in perfectly calibrated prose.' Rose George 'Tales from a parallel universe which is also strangely our own ... a genre-busting masterpiece.' Hugo Williams 'Some years ago, Richard Wirick and his wife (who already had two children of their own) adopted a baby girl from a Siberian orphanage. One Hundred Siberian Postcards is a gift for her, evoking the scenic grandeur of her birthplace, alongside the ramshackle quality of much Russian life ... comprising folk tales, beliefs, customs, moments from Siberian history, extracts from Russian writers, reflections on childhood and consciousness, and dreams, with a touch of magic realism, as when someone watching a case being X-rayed at an airport sees "dozens of little men ... sawing timber inside the Samsonite".' Tom Aitken, TLS 'Richard Wirick's deeply felt, beautifully written palm-of-the-hand-tales that make up 100 Siberian Postcards are as luminous as Basho's Narrow Road to Oku and as moving as the Hemingway vignettes of In Our Time. Yet Wirick's profoundly moving book is unlike anything else I've read; an ode to Siberia as much as it is to the human condition.' Samantha Gillison, author of The King of America 'Attentive and compassionate, Richard Wirick has journeyed through Siberia and returned with it. These 'postcards' provide startling glimpses into the fraught, yet tenacious, Russian spirit.' John Witte, Editor of Northwest Review 'Richard Wirick is an insurance lawyer with the soul - and the pen - of a poet.' Anna Reid, author of Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine 'Compassionate and literate ... He has a mystic's confidence in the power of his imagination to prise bits of truth out of the frigid landscape.' Caroline McGinn, The New Statesman 'The best postcards are like poems: reptilian in a different way, they shed their excess skin of details and dates, and dart in on a little narrative, a clear image that speaks of the writer's experience. Richard Wirick has a it down to a fine art. An insurance lawyer from Los Angeles, he and his wife travelled to Siberia to adopt a baby girl. Having immersed himself in the landscape and culture, he returned with enough stories and still lifes to make 100 perfect postcards.' Tom Gatti, The Times
Author : Sophy Roberts
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802149308
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Lost Pianos of Siberia written by Sophy Roberts and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “melodious” mix of music, history, and travelogue “reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.” —The Wall Street Journal Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos—grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos traveled into this snowbound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accomplished extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia follows Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful—and peppered with pianos. “An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.” —Paul Theroux
Author : Daniel Beer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958914
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Daniel Beer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Cundill History Prize The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals and political dissidents, but also as new settlements. The system failed on both fronts: it peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population, and transformed the region into a virtual laboratory of revolution. A masterly and original work of nonfiction, The House of the Dead is the history of a failed social experiment and an examination of Siberia’s decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world.
Author : Robin White
Publisher : Island Books
ISBN 13 : 0440224608
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Siberian Light written by Robin White and published by Island Books. This book was released on 1998-11-10 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the vivid backdrop of a country replacing corrupt communism with an equally corrupt capitalism, the geologist-turned-mayor of Markovo becomes obsessed with a grisly murder. Ordered to investigate, Mayor Gregori Nowek, no detective, soon finds himself in a labyrinth of deception that nevertheless begins to yield clues that point first toward a scientist studying the nearly extinct Siberian tiger, the beautiful Dr. Anna Vereskaya and ultimately towards an American-financed oil exploration venture.
Author : Alison Rowley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442667168
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Open Letters written by Alison Rowley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary eras, picture postcards were an important medium of communication for Russians of all backgrounds. In Open Letters, the most comprehensive study of Russian picture postcards to date, Alison Rowley uses this medium to explore a variety of aspects of Russian popular culture. The book is lavishly illustrated with more than 130 images, most of which have never been published before. Through her examinations of postcards, Rowley addresses a diverse range of topics: how landscape postcards conveyed notions of imperialism; the role of postcards in the rise of celebrity culture; depictions of the body on erotic and pornographic postcards; how postcards were employed to promote differing interpretations of the First World War; and the use of postcards by revolutionary groups seeking to overthrow the Tsarist government. Rowley determines the extent to which Russia was embedded in Europe-wide cultural trends by situating the Russian case within a larger European context.
Author : Janet M. Hartley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300167946
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Siberia written by Janet M. Hartley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geschiedenis van de bevolking van Siberië.
Author : Svetlana Gorshenina
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110754568
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Photographing Central Asia written by Svetlana Gorshenina and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses new theoretical approaches in visual and memory studies that prompted to rethink of the photography of Russian Turkestan of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Attempts to relate the visual unknown documentations to postcolonial criticism also opened up new interpretive arenas, helping to decentralize the analysis of the history of photography. The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts. Without reducing the entire argument to the binary of ‘photography and power’, the authors reveal the different modes of seeing that involve distinct cultural norms, social practices, power relations, levels of technology, and networks for circulating photography, and that determined the manner of its (re)use in constructing various images of Central Asia. The volume demonstrates that photography was the cornerstone of imperial media governance and discourse construction in colonial Turkestan of the tsarist and early Soviet periods. The various cases show the complex mechanisms by which images of Turkestan were created, remembered, or forgotten from the nineteenth until the twenty-first century. The book should appeal to scholars of the Russian Empire and Central Asia; of history of photography and visual culture; of memory studies. It should be appropriate for use in upper-level undergraduate courses, and even a broader public.
Author : Waldemar Bogoras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russanized Natives of Eastern Siberia written by Waldemar Bogoras and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. Arlene Hink
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645302059
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Trans-Siberian written by L. Arlene Hink and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Trans-Siberian By: L. Arlene Hink Curious about how ordinary people in the Soviet Union lived, L. Arlene Hink and her husband went on a fifty-two day trip in 1968. Traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Russia and continuing into European Russia and the Ukraine made them want to learn more about the people. Enjoying the cultural differences and their experiences with the many people encountered along the way, they provide insights into life in Northern Siberia from their experiences of living and working with these people. Through their experiences, they learn that respecting different perspectives is key to understanding human beings, not only between countries, but in one’s own family. Hink teaches that each of us has the opportunity to reach out to others, in our families and communities, to build trust rather than fear. Join Hink as she takes you through her travels, her husband’s notes, and both their experiences with people in Russia over a span of fifty years.
Author : Victor L Mote
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429965885
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Siberia written by Victor L Mote and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known to most as a realm of exile and labor camps, Siberia is also one of the world's wealthiest resource bases. This harsh, vast land constitutes nearly three-quarters of Russia's territory, yet after four centuries of Slavic migration and procreation it is home to a mere 32 million people.In this comprehensive book, Victor Mote illuminates the dichotomy between Siberia's rich treasurehouse of resources and its peripheral relationship to the rest of the world. With this paradox in mind, he traces the region's history from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the unique blend of wit and will developed by inhabitants to survive one of the most brutal environments in the world?a land that has been part colony, part prison, and part frontier. Mote also explores the geography, ethnography, economics, and politics of Siberia and its people, providing a multidisciplinary perspective for scholars and general readers alike interested in Eurasia's ?forgotten quarter.?
Author : Jeffrey Tayler
Publisher : Ruminator Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Siberian Dawn written by Jeffrey Tayler and published by Ruminator Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No guidebook existed for my route; no one had ever done it before", writes Tayler. As the first American to visit many of the places he goes, his reports on a country in transition are timely and unforgettable. It is also the account of one man's love for a fragile, desperately troubled country.
Author : Michael Atchison-Sprankle
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646280032
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Second Project: Siberia written by Michael Atchison-Sprankle and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PROJECT TWO: Siberia Jim Standish is a genuine tough guy. He feels the lack of fear and an inability to resist beautiful women are two of his weaknesses and is very good at solving 'unsolvable' projects for his clients. In this book, he tackles one major project and two smaller ones that involve the Mafia in Mexico City and a drug lord in western Mexico. He gets seduced by four women and has several people try to kill him. He also winds up with custody of twins that their mother doesn't want. Jim also solves personal problems for close friends. Here, he uses his superior intelligence--and an MIT professor--to help Ike avoid trouble from home. The title comes from his major project. A foreign group stole $740,000 from a Houston client, and Jim thinks he can steal it back. Four countries and two American cities later, he gets the chance, and almost gets killed more than once in the process. The love of his life, a beautiful attorney, comes close to being raped and murdered--twice--in California. . . but she's as tough as Jim, and a black belt in karate. So, one of the criminals winds up in prison and the other gets castrated by his mob partners. The problem is that she isn't sure she loves Jim enough to marry him. This fast-paced novel is one of a series that follow three principal characters as they try to live their uncommon lives. Jim's projects--the major ones and many of the smaller ones--are fictionalized versions of actual projects the author was involved with during his years as an international crisis manager.
Author : Carrie Fisher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849833656
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Postcards From the Edge written by Carrie Fisher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** THE NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL ** ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry ** ‘I don’t think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.’ Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope – and find work – back on the outside, she meets new patient Alex. Ambitious, good-looking in a Heathcliffish way and in the grip of a monumental addiction, he makes Suzanne realize that, however eccentric her life might seem, there’s always someone who’s even closer to the edge of reason. Carrie Fisher’s bestselling debut novel is an uproarious commentary on Hollywood – the home of success, sex and insecurity – and has become a beloved cult classic. ‘This novel, with its energy, bounce and generous delivery of a loud laugh on almost every page, stands as a declaration of war on two fronts: on normal and on unhappy’ STEPHEN FRY ‘A single woman’s answer to Nora Ephron’s Heartburn . . . the smart successor to Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays’ Los Angeles Times ‘A cult classic . . . A wonderfully funny, brash and biting novel’ Washington Post 'A wickedly shrewd black-humor riff on the horrors of rehab and the hollows of Hollywood life' People 'Searingly funny' Vogue
Author : Rob Lilwall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781451607871
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Cycling Home from Siberia written by Rob Lilwall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ It is late October, and the temperature is already –40 degrees . . . My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts; and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.” Having left his job as a high-school geography teacher, Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a healthy dose of fear. Cycling Home from Siberia recounts his epic three-and-a-half-year, 30,000-mile journey back to England via the foreboding jungles of Papua New Guinea, an Australian cyclone, and Afghanistan’s war-torn Hindu Kush. A gripping story of endurance and adventure, this is also a spiritual journey, providing poignant insight into life on the road in some of the world’s toughest corners.
