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 ...
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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. From the Hardcover edition.
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Seller's Description:
Good jacket. McClelland Stewart Inc., 1973. Second edition. Book Condition: Very Good. Hardcover bound in green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and blindstamped emblem on front. Mapped fdps. Minor shelf wear. Pages lightly tanned. Text bright. Binding tight. Dust Jacket condition: Good. Pictorial Decorative Dust Jacket. Minor tearing and chipping to jacket extemities. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
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Good. Yes, Dust Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7+"-9+" tall. Scant cornerwear, pages 159 to 185 have a slight waviness at the fore edge side. Small soil mark on lower fore edge. Clean interior.
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NF in VG- jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover in olive cloth, in brown, burnt-orange and black jacket, 8vo. 313pp. + colophon. Index, two maps in text, maps on endpapers. NF/VG-. Boook has hint of splaying toward fore edge of rear board; extremely mld spine slant toward lower end only with no effect on tight binding and hinges. Cloth clean and bright; pages clean and unamrked. Jacket has rubbing with shallow scratches and surface loss along edges and hinges with shallow chipping at spine ends and corners; internally-taped 5/8" tear lower front corner over edge. Central panels clean and strongly colored. Jacket in Brodart.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 6 x 9 1/4. Mowat, Farley, SIBIR My Discovery of Siberia. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, Second Edition, Hard Cover, green boards with gilt letters, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4, Very Good/ Very Good, 313 pages. Stain on front edge, d.j. corners rubbed. Maps of western and eastern Siberia and endpapers maps, "Top of the World".
