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Jeremiah Curtin chronicles his 1900 expedition into the Siberian wilderness to document the fading oral traditions of the Buriat Mongols. Readers gain access to a vanishing world of shamanic ritual, epic mythology, and a harsh, beautiful landscape where the sky is father and the earth is mother.