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I bought this at a Chronicle Books warehouse sale on a whim. All I knew was that it took place in Russia, and I like books on Russia. The story pushes forward through three interwoven threads - the main story, which follows a group of nine college students as they prep and begin their hike in the Ural Mountains in 1959, the story of the search & rescue team who head out to find the hikers after they fail to return at the start of the semester, and the author's travels to Russia to meet people co
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