A review by brynhammond
Dersu the Trapper by Jaimy Gordon, Vladimir Arsenyev, Malcolm Burr

4.0

I want to note the unobtrusive personality of the Russian officer, who tells us about the Gold he so admires and not about himself. He expresses freely that he feels like a child in Dersu's hands whenever the taiga turns frightening. He learns from him like a child, too, as Dersu laments the onset of the end for the taiga as she was. Expect to be saddened, but you're with a likeable guy who cares about what he sees and hasn't a macho bone in his body.

More by luck than judgement I read this alongside [b:A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990|1229687|A History of the Peoples of Siberia Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990|James Forsyth|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348727785s/1229687.jpg|1218238], and that proved interesting.