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Siberia

?SP >SLXLYɪ^ .ZL_ , 9L_TaP 3T^_Z]d ZQ >TMP]TL by Anna Reid (History) Part history, part
anthropology, and part travelogue, Reid’s book follows her trip to Siberia to discover and
interview members of the various aboriginal peoples—the Khant, Buryat, Tuvans, Sakha, Ainu
and Chukchi—who live there.

In Siberia by Colin Thubron (Travel Narrative) A classic account of a trans-continental
long haul (about 15,000 miles) across Siberia, part of which was done on the Trans-
Siberian railway.

?PY_ 7TQP TY >TMP]TL by George Kennan (Exploration) Would you leave San Francisco for a job in
Siberia? George Kennan did just that—exploring Siberia in 1865 with the hopes of being able to
establish a telegraph line there. In the end, the people and landscapes of Siberia seem to have
interested Kennan more than the telegraph line…luckily for us.

>TMP]TL , .`W_`]LW 3T^_Z]d by Anthony Haywood (History) This recent volume is a useful and
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Mongolia
3PL]TYR -T]O^ 1Wd by Louisa Waugh (Travel Narrative) A charming look back at her year teaching
English in a Mongolian village. Winner of the 2004 Ondaatje Prize, which is awarded by the
Royal Society of Literature for a work that evokes “spirit of place”.

6S`MTWLT 6SLYɪ^ 7Z^_ 1WPP_% 4Y >PL]NS ZQ L 7PRPYOL]d ,]XLOL by James P. Delgado (History) How
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15 years? Archeologist Delgado joins with a Japanese dive team to try to answer that very
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more than a legend.

?SP >PN]P_ 3T^_Z]d ZQ _SP 8ZYRZW <`PPY^ by Jack Weatherford (History) An inventive look at the
female descendants of the Great Khan by a professor of anthropology at Macalester College. A
good source for the full story of Queen Mandukhai the Wise.

2PYRST^ 6SLY LYO _SP 8LVTYR ZQ _SP 8ZOP]Y BZ]WO by Jack Weatherford (History) An in depth look
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time. (Weatherford has been awarded the Order of the Polar Star, which is Mongolia’s highest
national award.)

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