With Light Steam : : A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths / / Bryon MacWilliams.
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 we...
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MacWilliams, Bryon, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut With Light Steam : A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths / Bryon MacWilliams. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (224 p.) : 31 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- The Banya Is Everything -- The Banya Is an Entire Philosophy -- The Banya Is Communion -- The Banya Is Holy -- The Banya Is Life -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Three Vignettes -- Appendix 2: Banya Sayings -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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.Writing in a highly engaging style, MacWilliams travels the country to convey the breadth of banya culture and what it means to steam, a process that is at once a simple cleansing and a deep purification. It awakens the body and quiets the mind, generating waves of good feeling akin to an endorphin high. Each chapter of this splendid book is an episode—spanning from several hours to several days—from the Far North, Moscow, the Ural Mountains, the Solovetsky Islands, and a southern stretch of the Volga River.With Light Steam, the title is derived from the phrase used in banyas in lieu of goodbye, is the only book in English devoted to the banya and the only volume in any language to present Russia through the lens of its bath culture, the most Russian thing there is. General readers and scholars alike will be enchanted with this unforgettable portrait of a people and a millennia-spanning tradition. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jul 2024) Memoir. Soviet & East European History. Travel Guides & Travel Writing. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. bisacsh banya culture, Moscow bathhouse, Ural mountains, Solovetsky Islands. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758133 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501758133 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501758133/original |
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