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Author Williams, Laura Lynne

Title The storks' nest : (life and love in the Russian countryside) / Laura Lynne Williams ; with photographs by Igor Shpilenok
Published Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 300; Pages:301 to 325; Pages:326 to 336
Summary Drawn to Russia to work on conserving its extensive wilderness, Laura Williams shares the story of her life-changing move to the countryside, where she works on a remote nature reserve and falls in love with its director, Igor Shpilenok. Together they explore the wilderness in the Bryansk Forest surrounding their village of Chukhrai, encountering the elusive black stork, apprehending poachers, and raising a moose. Through the long winter, they cope with hardships, which Laura learns are nothing compared to those the villagers have experienced in the past century. City born and bred as a typica
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Subject Williams, Laura Lynne
SUBJECT Williams, Laura Lynne fast
Subject Natural history -- Russia (Federation) -- Gosudarstvennyĭ prirodnyĭ zapovednik "Bri︠a︡nskiĭ les."
Conservationists -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
NATURE -- Essays.
NATURE -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
Conservationists
Natural history
Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Gosudarstvennyĭ prirodnyĭ zapovednik "Bri︠a︡nskiĭ les"
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007042340
ISBN 9781555918996
1555918999
1282468103
9781282468108
9786612468100
6612468106