Ian Frazier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Frazier and http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111023952) trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the expanse of Asiatic Russia with a grim renown.
In Travels in Siberia (2010), 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. He tells the stories of Siberia’s most famous exiles. Dostoyevsky, Lenin , Stalin, Natalie Lopukhin, and Solzhenitsyn are all covered. 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. It is a country that, for all its tragic history, somehow still manages to be funny. This is an outstanding achievement in travel writing.
Enquire at your local library or available in paperback at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Travels-Siberia-Ian-Frazier/dp/0312610602/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390254692&sr=8-1&keywords=travels+in+siberia
529 pages in Picador USA paperback edition
ISBN 978-0312610609
Ian Frazier