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In the early 80s Colin Thubron wrote a bestselling book about his travels around the Soviet Union in an old Morris Minor. In the late 90s, post Soviet Union, he decided to explore Siberia - this time by truck, by bus, by boat. The result is a wonderfully readable and evocative account of an extraordinary region. He travels through exotic cities and deserted villages, meets nostalgic old Stalinists and aggressive Orthodox churchmen, and generally interweaves Siberia's fascinating history with a vivid description of the place today.

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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 … he is a marvellous storyteller … Rasputin lookalikes, religious shamans and Gulag survivors all create an enduring image of 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 affected 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

'Exceptionally well written account of Thubron's excursions in bleak Siberia' - The Independent

'A strangely luminous memoir [with] a taut vivacity which makes the whole book sing'. - The Observer

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