With light steam [electronic resource] : a personal journey through the Russian baths / Bryon MacWilliams.

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 on academe and the sciences for the world's leading publications and sought out the best baths--or banyas--everywhere he...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	MacWilliams, Bryon
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Bathing customs > Russia (Federation) Bathhouses > Russia (Federation) Baths, Russian. Russia (Federation) > Social life and customs. Bathhouses. Bathing customs. Manners and customs. Russia (Federation)