Kamchatka: Land of Fire and Ice - Hardcover

Gippenreiter, Vadim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856690202 ISBN 13: 9781856690201

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Gippenreiter, Vadim

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

From Library Journal:

A remote peninsula located north of Japan and west of Alaska, Kamchatka is a land of contrasts. Blessed with a wealth of natural resources and spectacular scenery, this outpost of the former Soviet Union has long played a strategic military role. As the first Westerner to visit the region in 50 years, writer Robert Perkins provides a brief but excellent brief history in the introduction. Most impressive, however, are the large color photographs, which Gippenreiter, one of Russia's foremost landscape photographers, has accumulated over several years. The peninsula contains ten percent of the world's active volcanoes, and many of the photos illustrate spectacular eruptions that have often drastically altered the scenery overnight. Recommended for natural history and earth science collections.
- Tim Markus, Evergreen State Coll. Lib., Olympia, Wash.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1856690202
• ISBN 13: 9781856690201
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 191