This book tells of the Far North, of the many small nationalities who have lived from time immemorial on the wide open spaces of the Arctic coast between the Barents Sea in the west and Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands in the east, between Murmansk and Vladivostok. These nationalities are sometimes referred to as "minor", because their populations are not large - some number no more than a thousand people. But each nationality has its own language, its own culture and its own arctic traditions handed down from generation to generation. 'Through the Centuries' has brought together some of the best works about the Russian Far North by such authors as the Chukchi, Yuri Rytkheu, the Mansi Yuvan Shestalov, the Nenets, Vasily Ledkov and the Yukaghir, Semyon Kurilov.
