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  • The Border

    A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northwest Passage

    by Erika Fatland ...
    The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe.Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has been—and remains—a towering and intimidating neighbor. Whether it is North Korea in the Far East through the former Soviet republics in Asia and the Caucasus, or countries on the Caspian ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • First Russia, Then Tibet

    by Robert Byron ...
    First published in 1933, this text is a fascinating account of Robert Byron's travels in the Russia, India and Tibet of the time. The narrative of travels and descriptions of environment are first-rate and beautifully written. One of the great early examples of the travel-writing genre! ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • English-Tajik phrasebook and 3000-word topical vocabulary

    English-Tajik phrasebook and 3000-word topical vocabularyThe collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books is designed for people traveling abroad for tourism and business. The phrasebooks contain what matters most - the essentials for basic communication. This is an indispensable set of phrases to "survive" while abroad.Some of the topics included in the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Foreigner Group

    Much has been said and written about the Azov Regiment, the now infamous volunteer unit formed during the long war in the Donbas. Amid the allegations and sensationalism from both Western and Russian media stands this unique first-hand account of what life was like in the notorious independent battalion.In The Foreigner Group, Swedish volunteer Carolus Löfroos offers in vivid detail his experience ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Call from the East

    Having circumnavigated North America in 2009, the author and his doughty pillion rider decide to tackle Russia and Georgia. It's a test ride really, a pre-cursor to attempting to ride their motorcycle across Siberia. Blocked from entering Georgia, they decide to ride around the Black Sea, heading for Turkey, then Georgia. In doing so they pass through Ukraine and Crimea, before getting thoroughly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Metro Stop Dostoevsky

    Travels in Russian Time

    by Ingrid Bengis ...
    A Russian American writer catapults herself into the maelstrom of Russian life at a time of seismic change for bothThe daughter of Russian émigrés, Ingrid Bengis grew up wondering whether she was American or, deep down, "really Russian." In 1991, naïvely in love with Russia and Russian literature, she settled in St. Petersburg, where she was quickly immersed in "catastroika," a period of immense ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Top 10 Moscow

    by DK Eyewitness ...
    Series series Pocket Travel Guide
    Top 10 Moscow provides travelers with visually engaging lists of Moscow's finest museums, churches and cathedrals, performing arts venues, socialist buildings, cultural events, festivals, leisure activities, markets, souvenirs, bars, and even distinctive Russian drinks.There are sections covering all the popular tourist sights, including The Kremlin and Red Square, Kitay Gorod, Arbatskaya, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 46000+ Vocabulary English - Russian

    by Gilad Soffer ...
    "46000+ Vocabulary English - Russian" is a list of more than 46000 words translated from English to Russian, as well as translated from Russian to English. Easy to use- great for tourists and English speakers interested in learning Russian. As well as Russian speakers interested in learning English. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Learn to Read Russian in 5 Days

    by Sergei Orlov ...
    Learning to read a language with a foreign alphabet can be an intimidating challenge. Even before you can start to study the vocabulary and grammar, you must first decipher this strange new script.But learning a new alphabet does not have to be so difficult.Other language courses start by showing a table of the alphabet and then immediately proceed to dialogues and grammatical descriptions. This ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My First Trip to The Homeland: In Search of Abandoned Treasures Behind the Iron Curtain

    Travels with Tania

    by Tania Romanov ...
    Series series Travels with Tania
    Although fluent in Russian, I have traveled to my homeland only once in my life, in the depressive years of the Soviet Union’s Communist existence. That trip, in 1977, was occasioned by my position as an executive of a supercomputer company whose products were highly desired by the Soviets. As a result, I was allowed to travel to an area closed to tourists, the remote spot where my father was born ... Read more

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  • Mountain of the Dead

    The Dyatlov Pass Incident

    In January 1959, ten experienced young skiers set out for Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. While one of the skiers fell ill and returned., the remaining nine lost their way and ended up on another mountain slope known as Kholat Syakhl (or ‘Mountain of the Dead’).On the night of 1 February 1959 something or someone caused the skiers to flee their tent in such terror that they used knives ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travels in Siberia

    by Ian Frazier ...
    A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great PlainsIn his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The World Is My Oyster

    The World Is My Oyster, #1

    Series Book 1 - The World Is My Oyster
    The author survives with odd jobs in Tokyo, celebrates Christmas in Rio and learns that fat women are sexy - in Jamaica.He discovers the charms of freezing Helsinki, experiences warlike conditions in Haiti and ekes out $200 for a bottle of bottom-shelf whiskey in Alaska.He explores the secrets of lobster fishermen in Maine, assists in a cockfight in Puerto Rico and comes across a Turkish pearl in ... Read more

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  • Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia

    by David Greene ...
    Travels with NPR host David Greene along the Trans-Siberian Railroad capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.Far away from the trendy cafés, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.Midnight in Siberia chronicles David Greene’s journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway, a 6,000-mile cross-country trip from Moscow to the Pacific ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Among the Russians

    by Colin Thubron ...
    "There is no travel writer working today in English who possesses such a remarkable combination of the observant and the lyric gifts--the most poetic of us all." — Jan MorrisThe first book in Thubron's Russian trilogy AMONG THE RUSSIANS, called "superb" by the New York Times Book Review, recounts Thurbon's 10,000 mile journey throughout half of Russia's cities and countryside.Here is a fresh ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Short History of Russia

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    **A Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch"Terrific - and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book."** -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk RoadsRussia’s epic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's fascinating history to help us understand its actions today and what the future might holdA country with no ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • In Putin's Footsteps

    Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

    In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Border

    A Journey to the Edge of Europe

    “Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free.” —Peter PomerantsevIn this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Magnetic North

    Notes from the Arctic Circle

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleMore than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 1001+ Ejercicios español - ruso

    by Gilad Soffer ...
    "1001+ Ejercicios español - ruso" es una colección de más de 1.000 ejercicios para personas de habla español. Cada ejercicio es una frase en español y 5 opciones de traducción en ruso que debe elegir. Ejercicios divididos en secciones como los números, los colores, la hora, día, el cuerpo, saludo, tiempo, compras, salud, emergencia, restaurante y más. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Lost Pianos of Siberia

    by Sophy Roberts ...
    This “melodious” mix of music, history, and travelogue “reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.” —The Wall Street JournalSiberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos—grand instruments created during the boom years ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Amur River

    Between Russia and China

    by Colin Thubron ...
    "A gripping read with fascinating political insight." (Sunday Times, London)"Elegant, elegiac and poignant...Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide... to the river, much of it along the border between these two powers at a time of rapid and tense reconfiguration of global geopolitics." (Washington Post)The most admired travel writer of our time—author of Shadow of ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Bears in the Streets

    Three Journeys across a Changing Russia

    by Lisa Dickey ...
    **One of Bustle's 17 of the Best Nonfiction Books Coming in January 2017 and Men's Journal's 7 Best Books of January****"Brilliant, real and readable." —former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright**A USA Today "New and Noteworthy" Book****Lisa Dickey traveled across the whole of Russia three times—in 1995, 2005 and 2015—making friends in eleven different cities, then coming back again and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Memoirs of Catherine the Great

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762—96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for her will to power and for her dozen lovers, Catherine was also a prolific and gifted writer.Fluent in ... Read more

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