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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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With Light Steam

With Light Steam

Macwilliams, Bryon

Paperback

Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Biographies GeneralTravel WritingGeneral Architecture

ISBN10: 0875807089
ISBN13: 9780875807089
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ
Published: Oct 1 2014
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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. His story of Russia through its cult of steam begins on a frosty Sunday morning in a gypsy cab traveling to a bathhouse in Moscow, where the steam is conjured by an out-of-work carpenter named Grisha, who takes on MacWilliams as a kind of apprentice, allowing him into an otherwise closed world through which MacWilliams could see himself, and Russia, with different eyes. The Russian bathers insist, only half-jokingly, that the American is a spy.

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