In Siberia
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  • Published: 1 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099459262
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
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In Siberia

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10 Dec 2009
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'If there were a Nobel Prize for travel writing, Thubron should win it' - Daily Mail

'One of the finest books about contemporary Russia' Observer
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.

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

'If there were a Nobel Prize for travel writing, Thubron should win it' Daily Mail
  • Published: 1 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099459262
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Colin Thubron

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 Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road. His most recent book is To a Mountain in Tibet (all available in Vintage). Colin Thubron was President of the Royal Society of Literature from 2010 to 2017.

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Praise for In Siberia

I have never made it as far as Siberia, but reading this book makes me feel as if I have actually been there. Thubron weaves his own observations beautifully with the history of this part of the world

Lorraine Kelly, Sunday Express

Colin Thubron is in a class of his own in [having] a literary talent for reportage which is both crisp and lyrical

Scotsman

Captivating: a passionately engaged portrait of one of the earth's most mysterious regions...confirms Thubron's place in the pantheon of the writing greats

Sunday Times

There are currently few writers and fewer books capable of transporting a reader to another place as beautifully as Thubron does in this work. It is simply superb

Observer

Just incredible

Lorraine Kelly, Daily Express

A profound meditation on how some of the great upheavals of this century touched ordinary lives

Kazuo Ishiguro, Observer, Books of the Year
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