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In Siberia
- Author
- Colin Thubron
- Narrator
- Stephen Thorne
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 10 December 2009
- Run Time
- 11 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Travel writing
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A few years it became possible, for this first time, for a foreigner to travel Siberia almost at will. This is the account of Thubron's 15, 000-mile journey through this 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. This is the story of a people moving through the ruins of Communism into more private, diverse and often stranger worlds.
© Colin Thubron 1999 (P) Penguin Audio 2009
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Details
- Author
- Colin Thubron
- Narrator
- Stephen Thorne
- Duration
- 11 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 December 2009
- ISBN
- 9781407051901
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Travel writing
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.A few years it became possible, for this first time, for a foreigner to travel Siberia almost at will. This is the account of Thubron's 15, 000-mile journey through this 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. This is the story of a people moving through the ruins of Communism into more private, diverse and often stranger worlds.© Colin Thubron 1999 (P) Penguin Audio 2009
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