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Article: A remarkable tale of life with the reindeer; The Eveny have 1,500 words to talk about reindeer. But will they now fall silent?(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 20, 2005
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Byline: Marjorie Kehe
I'm an inveterate underliner when I read. To me, it only makes sense - when you revisit a book, you want to know right away what it was that fascinated you most the first time through.
But somewhere in the early chapters of The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia, I quit. I realized that I was underlining almost every sentence.
The image that opens the book is as irresistible as it is timeless. "In the Verkhoyansk Mountains of northeast Siberia, Eveny nomads are on the move," Vitebsky writes. "Teams of reindeer pull caravans of sledges down the steep slides of a frozen mountain river. Bells tinkle ...