Wilderness Survey: True Story of a Taiga Tragedy.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1959. First Edition. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very good condition. Item #014020
160 pages of text. Original paperback binding is moderately sunned on the spine, with minor shelfwear. Illustrated by numerous photographs, and a fold-out map. The text is clean and unmarked. No date of publication listed, but circa 1959. First edition in English. Story of three Soviet surveyors tracing the route of a prospective railway in the backwoods of the Eastern Sayans in South Siberia. It is based on the diary of Alexander Koshurnikov, head of the expedition.
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