Lost in the Taiga (a book review)

Lost in the Taiga is basically a documentary book(if such a thing exists) written by a Russian journalist. It follows a family of "Old Believers" of the Russian Orthodox Church, who had moved into the wilderness (Taiga), and were not seen by anyone for 30 years! When Russian geologists finally found them, it was almost like the family had timetraveled from the past. The younger family members were unfamiliar with things like TV, flight, wheels, and the like. They lived almost solely on potatoes, though once in ever great while they would catch deer in their hunting pits.
This book follows their struggles, not only with the wilderness, but with technology, for the 10 years after they were found. Especially interesting is their legalistic determination of what technology was "sinful" or not. They were arbitrary enough to reject matches, but to accept candles. Indeed while they claimed to be "true Christians" they lived in many ways inconsistent with the Christian worldview. Indeed probably the greatest one of these inconsistencies, the reason for their living in the Taiga, was their escapist attitude to the world and exaltation of traditions, from preferences to doctrines.
As this book was written from an atheistic, Communist perspective, it is incredibly interesting to read it from a Biblical perspective. Besides all this, it includes alot of Russian history, which is also interesting.