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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this masterful book, an acclaimed travel writer and novelist, in his eightieth year, takes a dramatic journey on the little known Far East Asian river that forms the highly contested border between Russia and China, covering almost 3,000 miles."--
2) Russia
Series
Publisher
Escapi New Media Studios
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A tour of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Murmansk.
6) In Siberia
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
As mysterious as it's beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast territory, talking to everyone he encountered about the state of the beauty, whose natural resources have been savagely exploited for decades; a terrain tainted by nuclear waste but filled with citizens...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The author of In Putin's Footsteps chronicles a deadly trek through the icy Russian region known for gulags and isolation.
In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, recreating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He is searching for primeval beauty and a respite from the corruption, violence, and self-destructive urges...
