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Author Willerslev, Rane, 1971-

Title On the run in Siberia / Rane Willerslev ; translated by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 207 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents One last, feeble attempt -- The fur project. Shalugin, leader of the Yukaghirs ; A post-Soviet nightmare ; Sable furs for sale -- On the run in the wilderness. Out of range ; Soft gold ; Starvation and desperation ; In the Yukaghirs' camp ; A long-awaited friend -- Back to the village. The curse ; Land of shadows ; Screwed ; The way back -- A leap in time -- Appendixes : surviving in Siberia. A. Using the leghold trap ; B. Yukaghir idols ; C. Netting fish in Siberia ; D. Finding your way in the taiga ; E. How to track and shoot a moose
Summary If I had let myself be ruled by reason alone, I would surely be lying dead somewhere or another in the Siberian frost. The Siberian taiga: a massive forest region of roughly 4.5 million square miles, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Bering Sea, breathtakingly beautiful and the coldest inhabited region in the world. Winter temperatures plummet to a bitter 97 degrees below zero, and beneath the permafrost lie the fossilized remains of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, and other ice age giants. For the Yukaghir, an Indigenous people of the taiga, hunting sable is both an economic necessity
Notes "Originally published in Danish as På flugt i Sibirien : Zobeljagt, russisk mafia og 65 minusgrader (Copenhagen : Gyldendal, 2009)"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Willerslev, Rane, 1971- -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
SUBJECT Willerslev, Rane, 1971- fast
Subject Yukaghir -- Hunting
Yukaghir -- Social life and customs
Refugees -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography
Anthropologists -- Denmark -- Biography
Sable trapping -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Fur trade -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Mafia -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Anthropologists
Fur trade
Mafia
Manners and customs
Refugees
Sable trapping
Travel
SUBJECT Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122202
Siberia (Russia) -- Social life and customs
Subject Denmark
Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816676279
0816676275
9780816681471
0816681473
Other Titles På flugt i Siberien. English