In Siberia

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  • Author: Colin Thubron
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Catalogue: 169577
  • Size: 13x20cm
In Siberia is the account of Colin Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through Siberia - an astonishing country, one that makes up a 12th of the land surface of the whole earth.

Thubron journeys by train, river and truck among the people most damaged by the break-up of the Soviet Union, travelling among Buddhists and animists, radical Christian sects, reactionary Communists and the remnants of a so-called Jewish state; from the site of the last tsar's murder and Rasputin's village, to the ice-bound graves of ancient Sythians, to Baikal, deepest and oldest of the world's lakes.

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