<p><em>Journey into Other Worlds: Discoveries at the Boundary of Russia and Mongolia</em> is an account of author Esther Jacobson-Tepfer's intellectual journey from a youthful fascination with Chinese landscape poetry to decades of study and field work in the Altai Mountains at the boundary between Russia and Mongolia. </p><p><br></p><p>In the process of their inquiry the author and her husband photographer Gary Tepfer had a rare opportunity to closely observe the people who still embrace a traditional herding way of life in remote Asia.</p>