To a distant island
By: James McConkey ; foreword by Jay Parini.
Edition: 1st Paul Dry Books ed.
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Fiction.; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai͡a︡ oblastʹ); Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.; McConkey, James -- Travel -- Italy -- Florence.; Exiles -- Russia (Federation) -- Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai͡a︡ oblastʹ); English teachers -- Biography.; Physicians -- Fiction.; Authors -- Fiction.; Exiles -- Fiction.; Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai͡a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) -- Description and travel.; Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai͡a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Biography.
Description: "In 1890 Anton Chekhov - thirty and already a famous writer - left his home and family in Moscow to travel 6,500 miles across Russia, over frozen land and sea, by train, ferry, and troika, to visit the island of Sakhalin, a penal colony off the coast of Siberia.".

"In To a Distant Island, McConkey recreates Chekhov's remarkable journey in all of its complexity, while interweaving a journey of his own. As McConkey guides us through the Russian wilderness and into the soul of this great writer, he uncovers the peculiar and hidden forces that shaped two lives."--BOOK JACKET.