Sacred Sea
A Journey to Lake Baikal
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2007. szeptember 20.
- ISBN 9780195170511
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem336 oldal
- Méret 235x165x21 mm
- Súly 603 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 20 halftones & 40 line illus 0
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Rövid leírás:
Lake BaikalSiberias immense and threatened Sacred Sea is the magnet that draws a veteran environmental journalist and his brother around the world and back by train and boat. On this classic journey of discovery, the author takes the measure of the planet, humanity, Russia and his own self as reflected in the worlds greatest lake.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
"Absoliutno blagopoluchnoe ozero Baikal!" the Russian scientist looking out over the great lake says. "Lake Baikal is Perfect!" And humans can never harm it.
For a man cut loose from his life in the U.S., Lake Baikal-Siberia's sacred inland sea-becomes a place of pilgrimage, the focal point of a 25,000-mile journey by land and sea in search of connection, permanence, restoration and hope.
Following a difficult divorce, veteran environmental journalist Peter Thomson sets off from Boston with his younger brother for one of nature's most remarkable creations, in one of the farthest corners of the planet. Lake Baikal, a gargantuan crack in the Siberian plateau, is the world's largest body of fresh water, its deepest and oldest lake, and a cauldron of evolution, home to hundreds of unique creatures, including the world's only freshwater seal. It's also among the most pristine lakes on earth, with a mythical ability to protect itself from the growing human impact-a "perfect," self-cleansing ecosystem.
A trip halfway around the world by train, cargo ship and rubber raft brings the brothers to a place of sublime beauty, deep history and immense natural power. But at Baikal they also find ominous signs that this perfect piece of nature could yet succumb to the even more powerful forces of human hubris, carelessness and ignorance. They find that despite its isolation, Baikal is connected to everything else on Earth, and that it will need the love and devotion of people around the world to protect it.
On their trek to and from Siberia the author and his brother also encounter a stream of people who are also lonely, displaced and yearning for something beyond the limits of their own lives, but many of whom are also big-hearted and deeply connected to their own communities and the world around them. What begins as a search for restoration in nature becomes as well a discovery of the restorative power of trust, faith and human connection.
Peter Thomson and his brother left their native Boston on a journey to this remote wilderness. Thomson's passionate and beautifully written account of what they found there combines travelogue with natural history and memoir. London Review Bookshop 2008.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Author's Note
Prologue: Blagopoluchnoe
Part One: The Sacred Sea
A Flash of Blue Light
Songs and Whispers
The Earth Splits, Water Rushes In
Into the Lake-Shallow
Into the Lake-Deep
Buryatia, in Black & White and Color
On the Trail with Pod Boy and Monkey Mind
Bad Roads are Good for Baikal
Traveling and Staying Home
Part Two: 180@
The Long Way Home
The Great Circle
Zigzag to Russia
Power in the East
Across the Sleeping Land
Angels & Ghosts in Irkutsk
Part Three: Baikal, Too, Must Work
One of the Best Enterprises in Russia
Righteousness, Uncertainty and the Point of No Return
Connecting the Dots
Dr. Hope and Dr. Despair
Blind Love is a Dangerous Thing
360@
Epilogue: The Great Baikal Chain
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Source Notes and Further Reading
