With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths

Synopsis

In 1996 Bryon Macwilliams Left The Relative Stability Of The United States For The Chaos Of Post-soviet Russia, And Stayed. Over The Course Of Nearly Twelve Years He Reported For The World's Leading Publications, And Sought Out The Best Baths - Or Banyas - Everywhere He Went. Writing In A Highly Engaging Style, Macwilliams Travels The Country To Convey The Breadth Of Banya Culture And What It Means To Steam, A Process That Is At Once A Simple Cleansing And A Deep Purification. It Awakens The Body And Quiets The Mind, Generating Waves Of Good Feeling Akin To An Endorphin High. Each Chapter Of This Splendid Book Is An Episode-spanning From Several Hours To Several Days - Of His Journeys To The Far North, Moscow, The Ural Mountains, The Solovetsky Islands, And A Southern Stretch Of The Volga River. Bryon Macwilliams. Includes Bibliographical References.