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| Preface & Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction Heaven and Hell | |
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| Landscape of Extremes | |
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| The Humdrum and the Bizarre | |
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| Cradle of Civilizations | |
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| Bronze-Age Cultures | |
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| The Scyths | |
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| Turkic and Mongol States | |
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| The Khanate of Sibir | |
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| Indigenes before Russian Colonization | |
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| Yermak's Conquest | |
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| A Frontier Beyond: The Urals and Yekaterinburg | |
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| Travel on the Sibirsky Trakt | |
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| Beyond the Watershed of Imagination | |
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| Stroganovs, Demidovs and the Industrial Heritage of Nevyansk | |
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| Yekaterinburg: Minerals and Mining | |
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| A Walk through Yekaterinburg | |
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| The Romanov Murders and Church-on-Blood | |
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| From Voznesenskaya Gorka to the Opera | |
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| Tyumen: Dallas in Siberia | |
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| From Fortress to Metropolis | |
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| Holy Trinity Monastery: Missionaries and Indigenous Colonization | |
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| Towards Historical Square and Central Square | |
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| Rasputin: The Mystic from Pokrovskoe | |
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| Tobolsk: From �Sodom in the Taiga� to a Cultural Heartland | |
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| The Kremlin Complex | |
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| Banishing the Bell | |
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| Siberian Administration | |
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| Outside the Kremlin: Decembrists and Dostoevsky | |
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| The Lower Town | |
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| Abalak and the �Pious Work� | |
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| To the Frozen Ocean and Stalin's Railway of Death | |
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| Khanty-Mansiysk: Boom Town | |
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| Berezovo and Salekhard | |
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| The Railway of Death | |
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| Omsk and the Baraba Steppe | |
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| Revolution and Civil War | |
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| Exploring Omsk | |
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| The Baraba Steppe | |
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| Over the Top: The Northern Sea Route | |
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| Exploring Siberia's Seas | |
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| The Second Kamchatka Expedition | |
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| Nordenskj�ld's Expeditions | |
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| Joseph Wiggins and Helen Peel | |
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| Nansen and the Drifters | |
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| Novosibirsk and the Trans-Siberian Railway | |
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| Building Russia's Railway | |
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| Novosibirsk: Bridge over the Ob | |
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| Around Novosibirsk | |
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| The Mammoths of Akademgorodok | |
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| The Altai Region and Republic: Mystics, Mountains and Nomads | |
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| Barnaul and the Altai | |
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| Industrial Heritage | |
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| Prospekt Lenina: Urban Archaeology | |
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| The Altai Republic: Spiritual Landscape | |
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| Altai Nationalism | |
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| The Katun River and Mount Belukha | |
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| The Yenisey River: From Steppes to the Frozen Tundra | |
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| Khoomei: Throat Singing and Cultural Identity | |
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| The Tuvans and their Burial Complexes | |
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| The Yenisey River North | |
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| Khakassia and the Steppe Cultures | |
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| Krasnoyarsk | |
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| North to the Arctic | |
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| Yeniseysk: Churches and Fairs | |
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| Turukhansk: Saints and Exiles | |
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| Irkutsk: The �Paris of Siberia� | |
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| Foreign Visitors | |
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| Central Irkutsk: Monuments, Museums and Monasteries | |
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| Remembering the Decembrists | |
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| Lake Baikal: Siberia's Sacred Sea | |
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| The World's Largest Freshwater Lake | |
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| Irkutsk to Listvyanka | |
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| The Circumbaikal Railway | |
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| Olkhon Island: Where Spirits and Cultures Meet | |
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| The Archipelago of Exile: Magadan | |
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| House of the Dead | |
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| The Gulags | |
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| Company Town | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index of Historical & Literary, Names | |
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| Index of Places & Landmarks | |