Recommended reading

The Society's Foyle Reading Room has over 125 items relating specifically to Kamchatka, as well as modern guide books covering the region.  The following are available for reference in the Foyle Reading Room.

For information on a wider selection, (including works in Russian, French and German) please visit the Society’s on-line catalogue

Or visit the Foyle Reading Room in person, where a member of the Collections team will be able to assist. Details

  Historic Maps

• The marine and continental tectonic map of China and its environs.
  Control number: 533000 // Class Number mr Asia Div.411 // 1 map: col.; 174x15cm // on 6 sheets each 78x58cm or smaller // containing geological data up to 1980.
• Kamchatka: administrative divisions, towns and villages
  Control number: 529128 // Class number: mr Russian Federation S/D.5 // Scale [1:4 650 000] 1 map: col. // 30x20cm // published 1944 // Office of Strategic Services, Washington.
• Kamchatka
  Control number: 529125 // Class number: mr Russian Federation D.20. Scale [1:2 250 000] 1 map; 25x17in. Published 1944 // Office of Strategic Services, Washington.
• Map of the Volcanoes of Kamchatka
  Kell, N.
  Control number: 356419 // Class number: sa356H // Leningrad, 1928. (Russian with English summary).

  Books

• Kamchatka: Land of Fire and Ice
  Gippenreiter, Vadim
  Control number: 356283 // SBN 1856690202 // hbk // Class number: sa 356H // London: Laurence King, 1992.
• The Russian Far East: a reference guide for conservation and development
  Newell, Josh
  ISBN 1880284766 // hbk // Class Number: mg 265XC // Published by Daniel and Daniel Pub. Inc., 2004.
• Through Kamchatka by Dog-Sled and Skis
  Bergman, Sten
  Control number: 356420 // Class number: sa 356E // Published by Seeley, Service & Co., 1927.

  Periodicals

• Bird Life in Kamchatka, Clark, Austin H.
  Control number: 356423 // Sc. Monthly, vol. 22 (1926), pp. 313-321.
• The English in Kamchatka
  1779 // Control number: 356288 // Class number: mgRGS Publications // Geographical Journal  84 (1934): pp. 417-419.
• Herders on the Edge
  Harris, Paul
  Control number: 356281 // Traveller 24 (1994) 2: pp.32-36.
• Kamchatka, Barrett-Hamilton, G.E.H.
  Control number: 356452 // Scottish Geographical Magazine 15 (1899); pp.225-256.
• Kamchatka
  Hodgson, Bryan
  Control number: 356280 // National Geographic 185 (1994) No. 4. pp.36-87.
• Kamchatka: A Photographic Feature
  Control number: 356303 // Geographical Magazine 38 (1965-66) 6: pp.425-9.
• Kamchatka: Restless Land of Volcanoes
  Friedenberg, Zachary B.
  Control number: 356282
  NY Explorer’s Journal 71 (1993) 4: pp. 184-191.
• On the problem of the Kamchatka volcanological expedition, Loewinson-Lessing, F
  Control number: 356417 // Control number: sa 903A-B // B. Pacific Committee A. Sc. USSR. (In Russian with English summary).
• Reindeer Nations of Siberia
  Robin Hanbury-Tenison
  Control number: 356284 // London, Geographical Magazine 65 (1993); no. 2; pp.15-19.
• The Riabouschinsky Expedition under the auspices of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, Jochelson, Waldemar
  Control number: 356437 // in Science 29 (1909); pp.303-306.
• Some geographical notes on the map of South Kamtchatka
  Hultén, Eric
  Control number: 356427 // G. Ann., (1923); pp. 329-350.
• A Visit to Karaginski Island, Kamchatka
  Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H.
  Control number: 356451 // Class number: mg // Geographical Journal (1898); pp.280-299.