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A Dream in Polar Fog
A Dream in Polar Fog | Yuri Rytkheu
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A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic chronicle of the people of Chukotka, and a politically and emotionally charged adventure story. It is the story of John MacLennan, a Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded on the northeastern tip of Siberia and the story of the Chukchi community that adopts this wounded stranger and teaches him to live as a true human being. Over time, John comes to know his new companions as a real people who share the best and worst of human traits with his own kind. Tragedy strikes, and wounds are healed with compassion and honesty as tensions rise and fall. Rytkheus empathy, humor, and provocative voice guide us across the magnificent landscape of the North and reveal all the complexity and beauty of a vanishing world.
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JenniferP
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Really interesting novel about an American who gets stranded with the Chukchi people in eastern Russia and learns to love their way of life. #archipelagobooks

BarbaraBB Sounds super interesting 10mo
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JenniferP
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I actually squealed when I got this early birthday order of books from Archipelago publishing. I had emailed that I wasn‘t able to access one of their sales (seemed like a website glitch) but just ordered the books I wanted anyway. They sent a lovely handwritten note with TWO free books. Love smaller book publishers!! #archipelagobooks

Ruthiella Nice! 😀 13mo
merelybookish That's awesome! 13mo
BarbaraBB That is lovely! 13mo
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jveezer
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Frankly blown away by this book. The language describing Chukchi life and their environment is wonderful. The mostly uninvited and negative impact of “civilization” was very fairly treated and the evolution of the white protagonist in his journey to become human is poignant.

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jveezer
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Really loving this one...

Leftcoastzen Love the buttons!Yay, City Lights. 6y
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jveezer
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This book may be the most geographically far out book I‘ve ever read. Might as well be on another planet. A few chapters in and in love with the language and landscape. I don‘t wanna live there, however! 😨

jveezer Sheesh. Those phone induced typos drive me crazy. Edited for them... 6y
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RanaElizabeth
A Dream in Polar Fog | IUrii Sergeevich Rytkheu
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Got my first box from #bookvoyage and so far, so good! Excited to try the teas and the book looks fascinating.