Nyurgun Bootur Stremitelnyy : Yakutskiy Geroicheskiy Epos Olonkho
Yakutsk: Yakutskoe knizhnoe izdatelstvo, 1982.
Illustrated by E Sivtseva, V Karamzina, I Koryakina illustrations. Second Edition. Flexible cloth. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. Item #17259
Corner bending, light cock, 1991 gift inscription on title page, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket corner tears, 1/4" edge tears with creasing, rub, wear. Solid flexible cloth boards. ; Russian language translation, from the Yakut. Monumental Yakut epic recreated from Sakha folk tales by Platon Oyunsky, the prominent Yakut Soviet writer, philologist, public figure, and founders of Yakut literature. This heroic Olonkho epic tells the story of Nurgun Bootur the Swift. The epic reflects the ancient herding history of the Turkic-speaking Yakut people. ; (432) pages.
Price: $149.95