The lost tribe of the Russian empire Justin Cartwright goes in search of the last of the Lapps, a people destroyed by the Communists

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: February 23, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland

by Roger Took

John Murray, pounds 18.99, 365 pp

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ONE OF THE shadows which falls from time to time on our world is cast by the marginal peoples who are either out of step with the countries in which they live or find themselves by quirks of history spread across several countries. In Africa, for example, the Bushmen and the Masai belong in both categories: their preferred lifestyle is out of favour with government, and they have no nation state of their own. There are many more examples, and of ...

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