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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia (1st Edition) by Piers Vitebsky Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-618-21188-8 / 0618211888 ISBN-13: 978-0-618-21188-3 / 9780618211883 Since the last Ice Age, the reindeer's extraordinary adaptation to cold has sustained human life over vast tracts of the earth's surface, providing meat, fur, and transport. Images carved into rocks and tattooed on the skin of mummies hint at ancient ideas about the reindeer's magical ability to car |