by Christina Dodwell (Author)
Featuring the travels and adventures of Christina Dodwell in the remote 1000-kilometre-long Kamchatka Peninsula on the eastern extremity of the former Soviet Empire, this book shows Dodwell travelling into a world of active volcanoes and crater lakes, of mammoths and glaciers and poison gases, and tundra at a winter temperature of -50 C. She took up with a dance troupe travelling round performing for reindeer breeders, and stayed on to share the reindeer people's life, learning to drive deer, dogs, a helicopter and a vezhod, and taking part in a reindeer sled Grand National. Dodwell is the author of Travels with Pegasus , A Traveller on Horseback , A Traveller in China and An Explorer's Handbook .
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Published: 20 May 1993
ISBN 10: 0340562730
ISBN 13: 9780340562734