Siberian Dreams
Publisher: Eye Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9781908646750; 9781903070512
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel; Social conditions; TRAVEL; Essays & Travelogues; General; Andy Home; Noril'sk (Russia); Siberia (Russia); Home, Andy -- Travel -- Russia (Federation); Norilʹsk (Russia) -- Description and travel; Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel
Description: Every year thousands compete to win the RGS/BBC Journey of a Lifetime award and fulfill their travel dreams. However, Andy Home's dream would be most people's nightmare. Andy went to Siberia, to the Russian industrial mining city of Norilsk where temperatures drop to minus 50, half the year is spent in perpetual darkness, and the pollution has destroyed all natural life. Once a prison camp, then a secret Soviet military city, Norilsk teetered on the edge of financial and social meltdown in the early 1990s. Now, it is owned by one of Russia's new breed.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Halftitle; Copyright; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 Getting There: The Man in the Ministry; 2 Arrival: 'Back in the Ussr'; 3 Inside Norilsk: Through the Looking Glass; 4 Fire and Ice: 'Welcome to Hell'; 5 Secrets: Ghosts in the Machine; 6 Inner Sanctums: 'Bbc or British Intelligence?'; 7 Escape to Siberia: 'You're Lucky You've Seen this'; 8 The Leviathan Awakes: Coming in From the Cold; Postscript; Appendices.