In Siberia

Colin Thubron (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2008
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-945926-2 (ISBN)

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'One of the finest books about contemporary Russia' Observer

This is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth. He journeyed by train, river and truck among the people most damaged by the breakup of the Soviet Union, traveling among Buddhists and animists, radical Christian sects, reactionary Communists and the remnants of a so-call Jewish state; from the site of the last Czar's murder and Rasputin's village, to the ice-bound graves of ancient Sythians, to Baikal, deepest and oldest of the world's lakes.

It is the story of a people moving through the ruins of Communism into more private, diverse and often stranger worlds.

'If there were a Nobel Prize for travel writing, Thubron should win it' Daily Mail

Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road (all available in Vintage). In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.10.2008
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	213 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Russland
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Asien
ISBN-10	0-09-945926-4 / 0099459264
ISBN-13	978-0-09-945926-2 / 9780099459262
Zustand	Neuware