Siberian Village: Land and Life in the Sakha Republic

by Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov and Bella Bychkova Jordan

Book Overview

The village of Djarkhan is in the heart of Russia's Sakha Republic, on the Central Yakut Plain. The world around Djarkhan, with its extreme subarctic climate and intractable permafrost, seems an unlikely place to look for a rich, historic, and exotic efflorescence of human life, and yet this is precisely what the authors found. Their book is a remarkable account of how the people of Djarkhan have created their own distinctive place through their unique...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816635706
• ISBN13: 9780816635702
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.9"