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Author
Language
English
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Description
"One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two sisters, eight and eleven, go missing. In the ensuing months the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. Social and ethnic tensions have long simmered...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
On June 4, 1741, Georg Wilhelm Steller set sail from Avacha Bay in Siberia on the St. Peter, under the command of Vitus Bering. The crew was bound for America on the last leg of an expedition whose mission was to explore, describe, and map Russia's vast lands from the Ural Mountains across Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula, and possibly lay claim to the northwest coast of America, if they could find it, for no European had ever reached America by...
3) Russia
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A guide to traveling in Russia that provides information on the country's history, culture, top experiences, out-of-the-way locales, and architectural wonders, and provides listings for hotels, restaurants, and shops.
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