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The Reindeer People : Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
The Reindeer People Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
Author: Piers Vitebsky
Since the last Ice Age, the reindeer's extraordinary adaptation to cold has sustained human life over vast tracts of the earth's surface, providing meat, fur, and transport. Images carved into rocks and tattooed on the skin of mummies hint at ancient ideas about the reindeer's magical ability to carry the human soul on flights to the sun. These ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618211883
ISBN-10: 0618211888
Publication Date: 12/8/2005
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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Thoroughly enjoyable. An intimate portrait of one village and three brigades of Reindeer herders in Siberia as they adapt to the changes brought on by the collapse of the Soviet Union. I'm almost loathe to post this, but as it's on three wishlists, I will pry it out of my hands and send it to on it's way. :)
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