In Siberia - Couverture souple

Thubron, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006095373X ISBN 13 : 9780060953737

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Thubron Colin

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

As mysterious as its 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 who both welcomed him and fed him—despite their own tragic poverty. From Mongoloia to the Artic Circle, from Rasputin's village in the west through tundra, taiga, mountains, lakes, rivers, and finally to a derelict Jewish community in the country's far eastern reaches, Colin Thubron penetrates a little-understood part of the world in a way that no writer ever has.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Colin Thubron is the author of seven award-winning novels, including To the Last City, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. He is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and his most recent titles include Behind the Wall, winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award; In Siberia, winner of the Prix Bouvier; the New York Times bestseller Shadow of the Silk Road; and To a Mountain in Tibet. In 2010 he became president of the Royal Society of Literature.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 006095373X
• ISBN 13: 9780060953737
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304