- Description and travel, Journeys, Travel, Nonfiction
As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Colin Thubron
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- Compass Press, Chatto & Windus, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060953737
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Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, *The Times* ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to *The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement* and *The New York Times.* His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.
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