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In Siberia
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  • Published: 1 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099459262
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $36.99
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In Siberia

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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: $36.99
Categories:

About the author

Colin Thubron

COLIN THUBRON is a celebrated travel writer, winner of many prizes and awards. His classic travel books include: Among the Russians (1983), Behind the Wall (1987), In Siberia (1999), Shadow of the Silk Road (2006) and The Amur River (2021). He is also the author of eight acclaimed works of fiction, including A Cruel Madness (1984), winner of the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, To the Last City, long-listed for the Booker Prize (2002), and Night of Fire (2017). Passage is his ninth novel, shaped by a journey to Egypt.
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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