Sibir;: My discovery of Siberia - Hardcover

Mowat, Farley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771065809 ISBN 13: 9780771065804

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 1970

Synopsis

pp. 313, ep maps, "One of his lesser known books, Sibir chronicles the author's experiences during two trips to the Soviet Union during the late 1960s. A lover of the North, Mowat had written passionately and extensively about it from the Canadian perspective, and had now been given the opportunity to see how the peoples...

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From the Inside Flap:

Here is a Siberia unheard of in the West. Once the most remote place of exile in all of Russia, Mowat describes it as a burgeoning land of opportunity and growth. Granted extraordinary freedom to visit places rarely seen by any westerner since 1917, Farley Mowat and his wife, Claire, travelled more than 29,000 miles over mountains, steppes, taiga and tundra to meet the people who have chosen to make Siberia their home and livelihood.

With his classic exuberance and wit, Mowat brings to life a place and a people who share the top of the world with us ? their hopes and aspirations, their humour, and their dedication to the dramatic awakening of Sibir, the Sleeping land.

About the Author:

Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921, and grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Richmond Hill. He served in World War II from 1940 until 1945, entering the army as a private and emerging with the rank of captain. He began writing for his living in 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. Since 1949 he has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He remains an inveterate traveller with a passion for remote places and peoples. He has twenty-five books to his name, which have been published in translations in over twenty languages in more than sixty countries. They include such internationally known works as People of the Deer, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be, Never Cry Wolf, Westviking, The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float, Sibir, A Whale for the Killing, The Snow Walker, And No Birds Sang, and Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey. His short stories and articles have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Maclean’s, Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0771065809
• ISBN 13: 9780771065804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 313