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‘This is a truly outstanding book…In his 15,000-mile epic, Thubron has penetrated the topography and the soul of Siberia…Read this book’ Justin Cartwright, Observer ‘This new book is Thubron’s finest achievement to date…and he is a marvellous storyteller…Rasputin lookalikes, religious shamans and Gulag survivors all create an enduring image if Siberia that is less a country than a strange region in the mind… Colin Thubron has completed a glorious quartet of travel books with In Siberia. Scholarly, superbly written, it will last well into the next millennium’ Ian Thomson, Guardian ‘A book that greatly affect me…just for once I was genuinely proud of the writer’s calling’ Jan Morris, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year ‘In Siberia is travel writing at its very best: luminous, lyrical, erudite and almost painfully sensitive, full of atmosphere and oddities and the breath of landscapes that seem too vast to comprehend. Thubron stands among the greatest travel writers of this or any age’ Stanley Stewart, Literary Review ‘A work of majesty…In Siberia is Thubron writing at the height of his very considerable talent. On every page there is description so immediate as to transport the reader immediately to the ice fields’ Edward Marriott, Evening Standard ‘A profound meditation on how some of the great upheavals of this century touched ordinary lives’ Kazuo Ishiguro, Observer Books of the Year ‘In Thubron’s hands, Siberia emerges as a place with a surprisingly large and beating heart’ Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times Books of the Year Softcover, 287 pages. In good pre-loved condition with the exception of being ex-library and showing a slight yellowing to page edges. Special protective cover applied to book so front and rear covers are in great shape