>>955383>>955465Amazing book anon. Great read.
It reminds me of a book I read in a library that I have never been able to find again. I cannot remember the title or the author. It was filed in the anthropology section of a college library.
The book was a true story about a westerner in Russia. For some reason he was deemed suspicious by the government (spy). He worked with the natives (yes, Russians also have Indians) and so promptly disappeared into their world for several years. The whole book was about him surviving in Siberia and balancing on the mental edge. He was often alone for months or only in contact with one or two other people. It was absolutely packed with interesting stuff about surviving in the tundra.
I remember the title has something to do with Werewolf, Skinwalking, or something like that because I thought it incredibly strange that A. a hyper Christian college had it in their library and B. that it was Russian. The title was important as for a while there the author actually starts mentally devolving into a wolf and his friend has to snap him out of it.
The natives had a habit of religiously asking the Ocean to yield food and if they caught nothing they would curse her for being a stingy bitch.
The author was frustrated at the native belief that there was a finite number of souls. No such thing as over hunting, since those souls would just cycle back up next season.
The only other bit I can remember is the Russian government thinking the tribes were embezzling money because as soon as a native received anything he promptly gave it to anyone who asked.
It bugs the hell out of me that I can't remember what it was called since it was such a fantastic resource. I went back a year later to track it down, and the college had gone through and "cleansed" the library. Nothing mythological remained.
