In Siberia

Zusatztext

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

Autorenportrait

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<i>Among the Russians</i>. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books:<i>Behind the Wall</i>(winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award),<i>The Lost Heart of Asia</i>,<i>In Siberia</i>(Prix Bouvier) and<i>Shadow of the Silk Road</i>(all available in Vintage). In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature.

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