DREAM IN POLAR FOG
Rytkheu, Yuri.
DREAM IN POLAR FOG /Translated from the Russian by Ilona Yashbin Chavasse. - 1 - New York Archipelago Books 2011/01/01 - 337
A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic chronicle of the people of Chukotka, and a politically and emotionally charged adventure story. It is the story of John MacLennan, a Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded on the northeastern tip of Siberia and the story of the Chukchi community that adopts this wounded stranger and teaches him to live as a true human being. Over time, John comes to know his new companions as a real people who share the best and worst of human traits with his own kind. Tragedy strikes, and wounds are healed with compassion and honesty as tensions rise and fall. Rytkheu’s empathy, humor, and provocative voice guide us across the magnificent landscape of the North and reveal all the complexity and beauty of a vanishing world.
9780977857616
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction.
Chukchi.
Chukchi- Fiction.
Russia (Federation)-Chukotskii avtonomnyi okrug.
Chukchi--Social life and customs.
Rytkheu, Yuri 1930-2008.
Russian writer.
Ilona Yashbin Chavasse Translater.
F / RYT/DR
DREAM IN POLAR FOG /Translated from the Russian by Ilona Yashbin Chavasse. - 1 - New York Archipelago Books 2011/01/01 - 337
A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic chronicle of the people of Chukotka, and a politically and emotionally charged adventure story. It is the story of John MacLennan, a Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded on the northeastern tip of Siberia and the story of the Chukchi community that adopts this wounded stranger and teaches him to live as a true human being. Over time, John comes to know his new companions as a real people who share the best and worst of human traits with his own kind. Tragedy strikes, and wounds are healed with compassion and honesty as tensions rise and fall. Rytkheu’s empathy, humor, and provocative voice guide us across the magnificent landscape of the North and reveal all the complexity and beauty of a vanishing world.
9780977857616
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction.
Chukchi.
Chukchi- Fiction.
Russia (Federation)-Chukotskii avtonomnyi okrug.
Chukchi--Social life and customs.
Rytkheu, Yuri 1930-2008.
Russian writer.
Ilona Yashbin Chavasse Translater.
F / RYT/DR