Books by Piers Vitebsky
The Reindeer People
by Piers Vitebsky
Russia has 5,000 miles of Arctic territory and there are 20 different peoples living there, most of whom are reindeer people, clinging to the shreds of what they once were. Vitebsky lives with and studies the Eveny people. It is an in-depth portrait of reindeer herders. They use every part of the reindeer, they eat it, dress in its hide, drive them and, when they are travelling with them, they look and smell like them too. There is this strange symbiosis. The book is full of poignancy and lyricism, a place where cold is the natural state of mind and heat is a luxury.
Interviews where books by Piers Vitebsky were recommended
The best books on The Polar Regions, recommended by Sara Wheeler
The acclaimed author discusses the Polar Regions. She says an African In Greenland is the best book ever written on Greenland – the story of a man from Togo who went there in the 1960s
