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Reeling in Russia
Montaigne, Fen.1st ed. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.In the summer of 1996, award-winning journalist Fen Montaigne embarked on a hundred-day, seven-thousand-mile overland journey across Russia, fulfilling a long-standing desire to explore the backwaters of the vast Russian countryside. Traveling with his fly rod, he began his trek in northwestern Russia on the Solovetsky Islands, a remote archipelago that was the birthplace of Stalin's gulag. He ended his travels half a world away as he fished for steelhead trout on the Kamchatka Peninsula, on the shores of the Pacific. In between he journeyed alone through the eternal Russia of log cabin villages and endless taiga, completing a trip few other Westerners have made.A former Moscow correspondent who speaks Russian, Montaigne trekked to some of the world's most beautiful rivers in pursuit of exotic game fish. Much of the time, his efforts were thwarted by poachers or his own incompetence. But his tales of visiting these far-flung rivers are memorable, and at heart Reeling in Russia is far more than a story of an angling journey. It is a humorous and moving account of his adventures in the madhouse that is Russia today, and a striking portrait that highlights the humanity and tribulations of its people.
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Fraser's penguins : a journey to the future in Antarctica
Montaigne, Fen.1st ed. - New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010. -
Medicine by design : the practice and promise of biomedical engineering
Montaigne, Fen.Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.Annotation A heart that once beat erratically has regained its natural rhythm. A woman paralyzed by an automobile accident is now able to resume her favorite hobby. Physicians using a robotic surgeon named da Vinci perform lifesaving operations. These are some of the feats of biomedical engineering, one of the fastest-moving areas in medicine. In this exhilarating book, award-winning writer Fen Montaigne journeys through this little-known world, sharing the stories of ordinary people who have been transformed by technology. From the almost commonplace pacemaker to the latest generation of artificial hearts, Montaigne tells the stories of pioneering patients, engineers, and surgeons. Taking the reader behind the scenes of a dozen of America's leading centers of biomedical engineering, Montaigne recounts the field's history while describing cutting-edge work in medical imaging, orthopedics, cardiovascular care, neurological therapies, and genetics. Through the stories of patients whose lives have been saved and improved by biomedical devices, Montaigne reveals the marriage of medicine and engineering to be one of society's greatest advances.A heart that once beat erratically has regained its natural rhythm. A woman paralyzed by an automobile accident is now able to resume her favorite hobby. Physicians using a robotic surgeon named da Vinci perform lifesaving operations. These are some of the feats of biomedical engineering, one of the fastest-moving areas in medicine. In this exhilarating book, award-winning writer Fen Montaigne journeys through this little-known world, sharing the stories of ordinary people who have been transformed by technology. From the almost commonplace pacemaker to the latest generation of artificial hearts, Montaigne tells the stories of pioneering patients, engineers, and surgeons. Taking the reader behind the scenes of a dozen of America's leading centers of biomedical engineering, Montaigne recounts the field's history while describing cutting-edge work in medical imaging, orthopedics, cardiovascular care, neurological therapies, and genetics. Through the stories of patients whose lives have been saved and improved by biomedical devices, Montaigne reveals the marriage of medicine and engineering to be one of society's greatest advances.
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