With Light Steam : : A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths /

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,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 31 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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