In Siberia

About this book

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.

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About the author

Colin Thubron

1939-06-14

Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, *The Times* ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to *The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement* and *The New York Times.* His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.