Plastun Bay
Bay on the Sea of Japan coast of Primorsky Krai, below the Sikhote-Alin mountains in Russia’s Far East. In Last of the Breed it is the warmer coast where Joe Mack promises to come for Natalya, and where she and her father settle and plot an escape.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last of the Breed | Louis L’Amour | setting | Joe Mack’s promised rendezvous; Natalya and Baronas settle in a cabin above the bay and weigh escape by land or sea. |
Last of the Breed — Louis L’Amour (1986)
Source: Original · Readwise highlight
Natalya Baronas stood in the opening of the small, deep valley where they had found a home and looked out over Plastun Bay.
- Role: setting
- In the book: Before he flees the exiles’ village, Joe Mack asks Natalya whether she knows the Sikhote Alins: “There is a place there called Plastun Bay. You would like it there. It is warmer than here… Get your father to take you there. I’ll come for you.” She protests that the coast is guarded by radar. In Chapter 25 she and her father live in a small cabin in a deep valley above the bay; Baronas warns that “Every inch of this coast is covered by radar and patrolled constantly,” and starts thinking of escape over the border instead, since “We are not far from China,” while she points out that “Japan lies just over there.”
- Why it matters: Plastun Bay turns the chase from flight into a goal: it is where Joe Mack must eventually reach if he keeps his promise, and the coast’s radar and patrols frame the escape problem for the rest of the book.