Sacred Sea A Journey to Lake Baikal

Name: Sacred Sea A Journey to Lake Baikal
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ISBN: 9780195387339

ISBN-10: 0195387333

ISBN-13: 9780195387339

Edition: 2009

Authors: Peter Thomson

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Sibera's Lake Baikal is one of nature's most magnificent creations, the largest and deepest body of fresh water in the world. And yet it is nearly unknown outside of Russia. In Sacred Sea--the first major journalistic examination of Baikal in English--veteran environmental writer Peter Thomson and his younger brother undertake a kind of pilgrimage, journeying 25,000 miles by land and sea to reach this extraordinary lake. At Baikal they find a place of sublime beauty, deep history, and immense natural power. But they also find ominous signs that this perfect eco-system--containing one-fifth of earth's fresh water and said to possess a mythical ability to cleanse itself--could yet succumb to…

Book details

List price: $26.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 7/4/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.21" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Author's Note


Prologue: Blagopoluchnoe



The Sacred Sea



A Flash of Blue Light



Songs and Whispers



The Earth Splits, Water Rushes In



Into the Lake-Shallow



Into the Lake-Deep



Buryatia, in Black & White and Color



On the Trail with Pod Boy and Monkey Mind



Bad Roads Are Good For Baikal



Traveling and Staying Home



180ï¿½



The Long Way Home



The Great Circle



Zigzag to Russia



Power in the East



Across the Sleeping Land



Angels and Ghosts in Irkutsk



Baikal, Too, Must Work



One of the Best Enterprises in Russia



Righteousness, Uncertainty, and the Point of No Return



Connecting the Dots



Dr. Hope and Dr. Despair



Blind Love Is a Dangerous Thing



360ï¿½


Epilogue: The Great Baikal Chain


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits


Source Notes and Further Reading


Index