ONE CHILLY SIBERIAN MORNING by Douglas Botting (Signed copy)

 What is it like in the most far-flung regions of the Soviet Union? Douglas Botting and John Bayliss recently penetrated further into the extremities of the greatest land mass in the world than any other Westerner, and this is their record of a fascinating venture into an unknown and empty interior. Their object was to make a film about Russia, but they found themselves, instead, first at Yakutsi, a frontier town with memories of invasions and insurrections, then north to the Kolyma Peninsula and finally on the shores of the Northern Ocean itself.

Subsequently they journeyed south to Central Asia, the Caspian and Armenia.  Douglas Botting writes of the people they met and the things they saw, the impact of doctrinaire communism on peasant or nomadic people; he writes of the changing seasons, the roar of unfreezing rivers, the coming of spring to the tundras; of the differences in temperaments and ways of life as the latitude changes; and he illuminates with 24 pages of his personal photographs his personal, informal, controversial and perceptive report on a huge nation in process of change.

Hard cover, with dust jacket in fairly good condition. Slight scuffing at the edges. The book is clean. Signed by the author to John Bayliss.