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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824104703321

Autore

Thomson Peter

Titolo

Sacred sea : a journey to Lake Baikal / / Peter Thomson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-029100-1

0-19-756220-5

1-281-15642-6

9786611156428

0-19-803811-9

1-4356-0952-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

508.47

Soggetti

Natural history - Russia (Federation) - Baikal, Lake

Baikal, Lake (Russia) Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-308) and index.

Nota di contenuto

AUTHOR'S NOTE; CONTENTS; PROLOGUE: Blagopoluchnoe; PART ONE: THE SACRED SEA; PART TWO: 180°; PART THREE: BAIKAL, TOO, MUST WORK; EPILOGUE: The Great Baikal Chain; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ILLUSTRATION CREDITS; SOURCE NOTES AND FURTHER READING; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Siberia's immense and threatened "Sacred Sea", Lake Baikal, is the magnet that draws a veteran environmental journalist and his brother around the world and back by train and boat. On this classic journey of discovery, the author takes the measure of the planet, humanity, Russia and his own self as reflected in the world's greatest lake.