Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia

By Peter Matthiessen

Book Overview

The 1990 journey of Matthiessen, Paul Winter and a group of Russian environmentalists who traveled around Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing one-fifth of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871565846
• ISBN13: 9780871565846
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 89 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

the spirit of Siberia

The hardcover book is a jewel: the pictures are absolutely beautiful, and the texts which accompany them is interesting. The excerpts from Valentin Rasputin's books on Lake Baikal are well chosen. It is extremely interesting to "meet" this controversial Russian author in the way we do through this book. He deserves praise for his environmental work, especially in such a country as Russia. The book definetely makes you wish to visit the place. It sounds loike a spiritual enriching experience, the lake seems alive...