In Siberia
Thubron, Colin, 1939-2008
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Siberia covers one twelfth of the land surface of the whole Earth. This is Colin Thubron's account of his 15,000 mile journey, by train, river and truck among a people moving through the ruins of communism into more private, diverse and often stranger worlds. 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.
Main title:
In Siberia / Colin Thubron.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2008.
Collation:
286 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1999.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780099459262 (pbk)
Dewey class:
915.7048
LC class:
PR6070.H77
Language:
English
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BRN:
2674041