A Journey into Russia

Jens Muhling (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

275 Seiten

2014
The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus (Verlag)
978-1-907973-94-9 (ISBN)

Infos

When German journalist Jens Mühling met Juri, a Russian television producer selling stories about his homeland, he was mesmerized by what he heard: the real Russia and Ukraine were more unbelievable than anything he could have invented. The encounter changed Mühling’s life, triggering a number of journeys to Ukraine and deep into the Russian heartland on a quest for stories of ordinary and extraordinary people. Away from the bright lights of Moscow, Mühling met and befriended a Dostoevskian cast of characters, including a hermit from Tayga who had only recently discovered the existence of a world beyond the woods, a Ukrainian Cossack who defaced the statue of Lenin in central Kiev, and a priest who insisted on returning to Chernobyl to preach to the stubborn few determined to remain in the exclusion zone.

Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, A Journey into Russia is a much-needed glimpse into one of today’s most significant regions.

Autor

Jens Muhling, born in 1976, was the editor of a German newspaper in Moscow between 2003 and 2005 and since then has been working for the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. He has won the Axel-Springer-Prize and the Peter-Boenisch-Prize for reportage.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2014
• Übersetzer: Eugene H. Hayworth
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 15 x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 680 g
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
• Themenwelt: Reiseführer ► Europa ► Russland
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-907973-94-X / 190797394X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-907973-94-9 / 9781907973949
• Zustand: Neuware