Siberia: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination)

by Anthony Haywood

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Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their 'colony' in North Asia, they heard rumours about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded from cold. This region of frozen tundra, endless forest and humming steppe between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean was a vast, strange and frightening paradise. It was Siberia. Siberia is a cradle of civilizations, the birthplace of ancient Turkic empires and home to the cultures of indigenes, including peoples whose ancestors migrated to the Americas. It was...Read more
  • ISBN10 1908493364
  • ISBN13 9781908493361
  • Publish Date 31 December 2011 (first published 21 May 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Signal Books Ltd
  • Format eBook
  • Language English