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On the Run in Siberia (Paperback)
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On the Run in Siberia (Paperback)
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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 and a spiritual experience-where trusting
dreams and omens is as necessary as following animal tracks. Since
the fall of Communism, a corrupt regional corporation has
monopolized the fur trade, forcing the Yukaghir hunters into
impoverished servitude. Enter Rane Willerslev, a young Danish
anthropologist who ventures into this frozen land on an idealistic
mission to organize a fair-trade fur cooperative with the hunters.
From the outset, things go terribly wrong. The regional fur
company, with ties to corrupt public officials, proves it will stop
at nothing to maintain its monopoly: one of Willerslev's Yukaghir
business partners is arrested on spurious charges of poaching and
illegal trading; another drowns mysteriously. When police are sent
to arrest him, Willerslev fears for his life, and he and a local
hunter flee to a remote hunting lodge even deeper in the icy
wilderness. Their situation turns even more desperate right away:
they manage to kill a moose but lose the meat to predators and
begin to starve, frostbitten and isolated in the frozen taiga. Thus
begins Willerslev's extraordinary, chilling tale of one year living
in exile among Yukaghir hunters in the stark Siberian taiga region.
At turns shocking and quietly moving, On the Run in Siberia is a
pulse-pounding tale of idealism, political corruption, starvation,
and survival (with a timely assist from Vladimir Putin) as well as
a striking portrait of the Yukaghirs' shamanistic tradition and
their threatened way of life, a drama unfolding daily in one of the
world's coldest, most enthralling landscapes.
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