Featuring the travels and adventures of Christina Dodwell in the remote 1000-kilometre-long Kamchatka Peninsula on the eastern extremity of the former Soviet Empire, this book shows Dodwell travelling into a world of active volcanoes and crater lakes, of mammoths and glaciers and poison gases, and tundra at a winter temperature of -50 C. She took up with a dance troupe travelling round performing for reindeer breeders, and stayed on to share the reindeer people's life, learning to drive deer, dogs, a helicopter and a vezhod ...
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Featuring the travels and adventures of Christina Dodwell in the remote 1000-kilometre-long Kamchatka Peninsula on the eastern extremity of the former Soviet Empire, this book shows Dodwell travelling into a world of active volcanoes and crater lakes, of mammoths and glaciers and poison gases, and tundra at a winter temperature of -50 C. She took up with a dance troupe travelling round performing for reindeer breeders, and stayed on to share the reindeer people's life, learning to drive deer, dogs, a helicopter and a vezhod, and taking part in a reindeer sled Grand National. Dodwell is the author of "Travels with Pegasus", "A Traveller on Horseback", "A Traveller in China" and "An Explorer's Handbook".
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Octavo. 159pp. Blue cloth boards. Illustrated from color photographs. Inked owner notation on front fly, slightly bowed boards else about near fine in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with edge wear. A look at the author's travels through Russia's "Far East", a vast territory stretching east to the Bering Strait and Alaska and south to the islands Russia disputes with Japan.
