White Fever

Name: White Fever
Brand: Counterpoint
SKU: 9781619020115
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A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia

Autor: Jacek Hugo-Bader

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Editura: Counterpoint

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No one in their right mind travels across Siberia in the middle of winter in a modified Russian jeep...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Jacek Hugo-Bader

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2012

Pagini

323

EAN

9781619020115

ISBN

1619020114

Enbook ID

04839828

Editura

Counterpoint

Greutate

386

Dimensiuni

152 x 226 x 25

Descriere completă

No one in their right mind travels across Siberia in the middle of winter in a modified Russian jeep, with only a CD player (which breaks on the first day) for company. But Jacek Hugo-Bader is no ordinary traveler. As a fiftieth birthday present to himself, he sets out to drive from Moscow to Vladivostok, traversing a continent that is two and a half times bigger than America, awash with bandits, and not always fully equipped with roads. But if his mission sounds deranged it is in keeping with the land he is visiting. For Siberia is slowly dying -- or, more accurately, killing itself. This is a traumatized post-Communist landscape peopled by the homeless and the hopeless: alcoholism is endemic, as are suicides, murders, and deaths from AIDS . As he gets to know these communities and speaks to the people, Hugo-Bader discovers a great deal of tragedy, but there is also dark humor to be found amongst the reindeer shepherds, the former hippies, the modern-day rappers, the homeless and the sick, the shamans, and the followers of 'one of the six Russian Christs, ' just one of the many arcane religions that flourish in this isolated, impossible region.

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