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Moscow/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1952. Hardcover. First edition; 5 x 8; pp. [2], 3-173, [3]; cloth-backed pictorial boards; some rubbing mostly along extreme edges of covers; few small nicks to fore-edge; illustrated in b&w by artist V. Ermolov; very good or better.Sergei Sartakov was born in 1908 in Omsk and grew up in the Siberian taiga after his family fled his hometown in the turmoil of the Revolution where he was unable to attend public school and was home-schooled by his mother. He began his literary career publishing articles and short stories in various journals. The plots of most of his historical novels and children's adventure stories revolve around Siberia and his unfailing love for the wilderness of Northern Russia and its people.