In Siberia

Winner of the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award''s Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing 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.