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In 1996 Bryon MacWilliams left the relative stability of the United States for the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, and stayed. Over the course of nearly twelve years he reported on academe and the sciences for the world's leading publications, and sought out the best baths - or banyas - everywhere he went. Writing in a highly engaging style, MacWilliams travels the country to convey the breadth of banya culture and what it means to steam, a process that is at once a simple cleansing and a deep purification. It awakens the body and quiets the mind, generating waves of good feeling akin to an endorphin high. Each chapter of this splendid book is an episode-spanning from several hours to several days - of his journeys to the far North, Moscow, the Ural Mountains, the Solovetsky Islands, and a southern stretch of the Volga River.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Travel writing

• Full title: With Light Steam
• Subtitle: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths
• Author: Bryon MacWilliams
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780875807089
• ISBN: 0875807089
• ID: 04750410
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 294 g
• Dimensions: 142 × 217 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2014

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