RUNNING WITH REINDEER; Encounters in Russian Lapland
Boulder, Colorado / Oxford, England: Westview Press, 2003. B&W photos, maps. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Tall 8vo, white snow-simulated cloth with pale gold lettering on spine, illustrated with 4 pages of B&W prefatory maps & 12 pages of B&W photos, archival mylar-protected pictorial/photographic dust jacket (unclipped: US $27.50) with photo of a reindeer herd & herders superimposed on an early map, Index, xii, [xiii-xvi: maps] + 365 pages. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #8973
ISBN: 9780813342108
NEAR FINE COPY: Tight, bright, clean in comparable dust jacket (unclipped) with very slight wear. Covers the remarkable lives of Sama reindeer herders in Siberia. Nicely illustrated.
Roger Took (1944 – 2011) was a British art historian, museum curator, and author who lived in London, Ireland, and Russia. In the course of his career, he ran several museums in England, was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a former director of the Barbican Art Gallery.
Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland, described life on Russia's Lapland and Kola Peninsula, and was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Took was later recognized as an expert on the mediaeval Russian fur trade.
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