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Frazier, Ian Travel Russia (Federation) Siberia Koryaks Russia (Federation) Siberia Biography Moolynaut Scientists United States Biography Siberia (Russia) Description and travel Siberia (Russia) History Siberia (Russia) History, Local Siberia (Russia) Social life and customs Women healers Russia (Federation) Siberia Biography Women shamans Russia (Federation) Siberia BiographyTurk, Jonathan.
Summary: A scientist relates the story of how Moonynaut, an elderly shaman in a remote Siberian village, healed his fractured pelvis after invoking the Spirit Raven, a healing that prompted the author to traverse the frozen tundra where the shaman was born and record the spiritual stories of bands of reindeer herders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2011
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Summary: Here, travel writer Ian Frazier trains his eye for detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the forty-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. More than just a historical travelogue, this is also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010