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In Siberia
Colin Thubron ventures deep into one of the world's most forbidding landscapes, traversing thousands of miles across Siberia from the Mongolian borders to the Arctic Circle.
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Through encounters with shamans, exiles, and survivors of the gulag system, he reveals a land haunted by its brutal past yet clinging to fragile hopes for the future. This masterful travel narrative combines Thubron's characteristic elegance with unflinching observation, documenting a vanishing way of life in remote settlements and crumbling cities. From the permafrost of Yakutia to the ruins of Soviet ambition, he captures both the devastating beauty of the Siberian wilderness and the resilience of those who call it home. An essential work of travel literature that illuminates one of Earth's last great wildernesses.
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