Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The Museum at the End of Whose World? -- Note on Transliteration -- Map of the Russian Far East -- 1. Across the Bering Strait and Through the Looking Glass -- 2. Chukotka: At the Edge of a Crumbling Empire -- 3. Magadan: The End of History -- 4. Anadyr: Tundra Town in Pastel -- 5. Khabarovsk: Embroidering the Border -- 6. Petropavlovsk: Once Almost a Boom Town -- 7. Esso and the Way There -- 8. In the Entourage of the Fisher King -- 9. Again Petropavlovsk -- Epilogues -- Notes -- Selected Sources -- Index
Summary
Anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey retracing the nineteenth-century Jesup North Pacific Expedition to the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index
