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From 2001 to 2002, I lived in Primorski Krai, in the Russian Far East just 10 kilometers from the border with China, as a Peace Corps volunteer. I taught English and did my best to understand the people in the town and village where I worked, despite arriving in the country with little knowledge of the beautiful, complicated Russian language and an often paralyzing homesickness. A year into what was supposed to be two years of service, the Russian government abruptly decided not to grant my grou
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As a person who spends time in grizzly country, I liked this book for what is said about how animals and people can co-exist. The "contract" between the two cultures is broken in this book with predictably bad results on both sides. I want to follow up this reading with two books cited in the text, Dersu the Trapper by V.K. Ars'nev and The Sheltering Desert by Hanna Martin. I may also follow up with a donation to the tiger outfit, Inspection Tiger/Tigris Foundation, highlighted in the book. Mayb
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Mar 28, 2019
Tessa
marked it as to-read
