This was an enlightening documentary by Ian traveling the approx. 4,000.00 miles from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok on the eastern side side of Sibeira. I didn't know that Siberia was as extensive as it was nor indigeneously inhabited by mosquitoes in parts or beautiful but inhabited small towns growing(Strawberry) devastation environmentally in cities. Finally reaching Khabararrsork, after being in Irkutsk, the home of "the Decembrirsts, Tolstoy." what reading.
It was in 2 parts ....broadiening my knowledge of Siberia, the vastness, individual habitation.
What happened to the White Russians, and the scarceness, pigs and geese outside of towns squawking/oinking, loneliness, appreciation of steppes and rivers Amur tributaries all north of Mongolia, China.
What great reading...and their final destination happened on 9/11/2001 in Vladivostok not Saharin.(sp).
So, this was great reading where I found out 2 previous issues in the New Yorker, very long as they traveled what looks like a small 4 dr. Datsun(I don't know the make of the vehicle) starting from St. Petersburg across the Urals.
Good reading....D
Did anyone else read this 2 part issue in the New Yorker?
And don't if I'll ever vist the place unless I would be sentenced there but I am not A. Solzehnighten(sp) or or needing the Trans-Siberian Railroad to go anywhere.
What was strange from this reading...was that some of the towns names literal are odd like "Old Believer."
Great 2 part article and I want to read the book...