The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires by Sophie Pinkham Drawing the Curtain to lesser-known classics

to lesser-known classics

now in a beautiful clothbound edition'Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers

and so war – and the need to be able to fight it – has shaped its evolution

who lives in a little blue village in the mountains where nothing ever changes

anchored in its past of myths

The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires by Sophie Pinkham Drawing the Curtain to lesser-known classicsFrom the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Steppes of Central Asia, Russia's forests account for nearly one fifth of the world's wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first ever English language exploration of this vast expanse a dazzling environmental history of Russia that offers an urgent new understanding of the nature of Russian power, and of Russia's ideas of itself. Inspired by the majestic oak, which towers over the country's