In Siberia

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Thubron is a marvellous storyteller - Rasputin lookalikes, religious shamans and Gulag survivors all create an eduring image of Siberia that is less a country than a strange region in the mind. In Siberia is travel writing at its very best: luminous, lyrical, erudite and almost painfully sensitive, full of atmosphere and oddities and the breadth of landscapes that seem too vast to comprehend. A profound meditation on how some of the great upheavals of the 20th century touched ordinary lives and in which Siberia emerges as a place with a surprisingly large and beating heart...