![]() ![]() From the first foray in 1581 across the Ural Mountains by aīand of Cossack outlaws to the fall of Gorbachev, East of the Sun is history on a grand scale. The richest resource area on the face of the earth, its land mass covers 5 million square miles - 7 1/2 percent of the total land surface of the globe. To most Westerners, Siberia is a vast and mysterious place. East of the Sun, a work of panoramic scope and brilliance, is the first complete account of this strange and terrible story. ![]() Four hundred years of continual human striving chart its course, a drama of unremitting extremes andĮlemental confrontations, pitting man against nature, and man against man. It is the greatest pioneering story in human history, uniquely combining the heroic colonization of an intractable virgin land, the ghastly dangers and high adventure of Arctic exploration, and the grimmest saga of penal servitude in the chronicles of man. In sweep, color, and grandeur, the conquest and settlement of Siberia compares with the winning of the American West.
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