num_pages: 529
description: In his astonishing new work Ian Frazier one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers trains his perceptive generous eye on Siberia the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia Frazier reveals Siberia's role in history--its science economics and politics--with great passion and enthusiasm ensuring that we'll never think about it in the same way again.With great empathy and epic sweep Frazier tells the stories of Siberia's most famous exiles from the well-known--Dostoyevsky Lenin (twice) Stalin (numerous times)--to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago.Travels in Siberia is also a unique chronicle of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union a personal account of adventures among Russian friends and acquaintances and above all a unique captivating totally Frazierian take on what he calls the amazingness of Russia--a country that for all its tragic history somehow still manages to be funny. Travels in Siberia will undoubtedly take its place as one of the twenty-first century's indispensable contributions to the travel-writing genre.
language: English
title: Travels in Siberia
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux