Travels in Siberia

SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. First Edition/First printing. New book, opened only for signing. Brodart protected. Ships in a box.

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A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of "Great Plains
"

In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In "Travels in Siberia," Frazier reveals Siberia's role in history--its science, economics, and politics--with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we'll never think about it in the same way again.

With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells the stories of Siberia's most famous exiles, from the well-known--Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin (numerous times)--to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime, forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in "The Gulag Archipelago."

"Travels in Siberia "is also a unique chronicle of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, a personal account of adventures among Russian friends and acquaintances, and, above all, a unique, captivating, totally Frazierian take on what he calls the "amazingness" of Russia--a country that, for all its tragic history, somehow still manages to be funny. "Travels in Siberia "will undoubtedly take its place as one of the twenty-first century's indispensable contributions to the travel-writing genre.

Product Info

ISBN: 0374278725

ISBN-13: 9780374278724

Publisher: FSG

Year: 2010

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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