Sacred sea : a journey to Lake Baikal /

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Author / Creator:Thomson, Peter.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178502
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ISBN:0198038119
9781435609525
1435609522
9780198038115
0198038119
9786611156428
6611156429
0195170512
9780195170511
1281156426
9781281156426
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-308) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Author's Note. Prologue: Blagopoluchnoe. Part One: The Sacred Sea. 1. A Flash of Blue Light. 2. Songs and Whispers. 3. The Earth Splits, Water Rushes In. 4. Into the Lake-Shallow. 5. Into the Lake-Deep. 6. Buryatia, in Black & White and Color. 7. On the Trail with Pod Boy and Monkey Mind. 8. Bad Roads are Good for Baikal. 9. Traveling and Staying Home. Part Two: 180°. 10. The Long Way Home. 11. The Great Circle. 12. Zigzag to Russia. 13. Power in the East. 14. Across the Sleeping Land. 15. Angels & Ghosts in Irkutsk. Part Three: Baikal, Too, Must Work. 16. One of the Best Enterprises in Russia.
Other form:Print version: Thomson, Peter. Sacred sea. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007