Table of Contents
Author's Note ix
Prologue: Blagopoluchnoe 3
Part 1 The Sacred Sea
1 A Flash of Blue Light 9
2 Songs and Whispers 16
3 The Earth Splits, Water Rushes In 25
4 Into the Lake-Shallow 30
5 Into the Lake-Deep 40
6 Buryatia, in Black & White and Color 54
7 On the Trail with Pod Boy and Monkey Mind 68
8 Bad Roads Are Good For Baikal 76
9 Traveling and Staying Home 85
Part 2 180°ree;
10 The Long Way Home 93
11 The Great Circle 107
12 Zigzag to Russia 118
13 Power in the East 128
14 Across the Sleeping Land 139
15 Angels and Ghosts in Irkutsk 153
Part 3 Baikal, Too, Must Work
16 One of the Best Enterprises in Russia 171
17 Righteousness, Uncertainty, and the Point of No Return 189
18 Connecting the Dots 199
19 Dr. Hope and Dr. Despair 219
20 Blind Love Is a Dangerous Thing 235
21 360°ree; 252
Epilogue: The Great Baikal Chain 263
Afterword 279
Acknowledgments 281
Illustration Credits 285
Source Notes and Further Reading 288
Index 309