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About the Author
Yuri Rytkheu was born into a family of Chukchi hunters in Siberia in 1930. He sailed the Bering Sea, worked on Arctic geological expeditions, hunted whale, defended the indigenous Chukchi people since the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Book Info

978-1-84659-040-5
February 2008
13 x 20 cm
Paperback with flaps
337 pages
£8.99

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Reviews
'This novel gave me the same haunting and powerful reading experience as reading Melville's travel fictions. Yuri Rytkheu is a world-class writer.'
Howard Norman

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Excerpts
Some boys brought a quantity of river ice on their sleds, the women hung an enormous cauldron over the blazing fire and started another fire nearby.

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