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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Willerslev, Rane, 1971- -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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SUBJECT |
Willerslev, Rane, 1971- fast |
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Yukaghir -- Hunting
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Yukaghir -- Social life and customs
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Refugees -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography
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Anthropologists -- Denmark -- Biography
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Sable trapping -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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Fur trade -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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Mafia -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Anthropologists
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Fur trade
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Mafia
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Manners and customs
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Refugees
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Sable trapping
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Travel
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SUBJECT |
Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122202
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Siberia (Russia) -- Social life and customs
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Denmark
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Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780816676279 |
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0816676275 |
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9780816681471 |
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0816681473 |
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