SIBERIA: The New Frontier

by George St. George ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 2, 1969

In the popular imagination Siberia has long been a frozen wasteland with nothing but salt mines. Mr. St. George, an American citizen who grew up in the old Siberia and was the first outsider to be permitted complete access to the new Siberia fifty years later, returns from the tundra and taiga with a glowing, nigh messianic report. In the last decade Sib-ir, the ""sleeping land,"" has become the ""Awakening Giant,"" a teeming, thriving territory with a newly-arisen landscape of oil fields and hydroelectric plants, beautiful modern cities and scientific research centers, its soil containing mineral and metal deposits destined to make it the richest country in the world. The settlers of this wide-open West are young families, its advance scouts are eager geologists, its city planners are Russia's most talented scientists, and it boasts the strongest ""weaker sex"" to be found anywhere. This vast new frontier, he avers, is the perfect outlet for a restive young generation; there is ""an entire new world to be built"" in a land where the milk and honey may freeze over, but the chances for a new and better human community seem most promising. St. George is a competent and enthusiastic tour guide with a taste for anecdotes, and he particularly favors the people creating the new Siberia.

Pub Date: Sept. 2, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: McKay

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1969

Categories: NONFICTION