Title: To a distant island
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.
Subjects: Authors, Biography, Description and travel, English teachers, Exiles, Fiction, Physicians, Travel, Russia (federation), fiction, Authors, fiction, Fiction, historical, Chekhov, anton pavlovich, 1860-1904
Places: Florence, Italy, Russia (Federation), Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ), Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
People: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), James McConkey