<p>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.</p>

White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia

Biographies & Memoirs

Hugo-Bader, Jacek

Professionals & Academics

Counterpoint

Book by Hugo-Bader, Jacek. Lloyd-Jones, Antonia, Translator.

Travelers & Explorers

Portobello Books

<p>From the author of the award-winning White Fever, Kolyma Diaries is an excursion into one of the world's last remaining badlands, a place full of Gulag ghosts and living wrecks. All along the 2000 kilometres of the Kolyma highway, Bader is plied with vodka. He hears mesmerizing, sometimes devastating, tales of the journeys that brought his 'fellow travellers', the people who give him lifts, to this benighted land. This is a book about the descendants of prisoners eking out a living, of conmen and veterans and scrap iron dealers, of corrupt politicians and organised crime. Stories are told of sons given away, husbands who reappear after three decades, scholars who now survive by foraging for mushrooms and berries, sculptors who hoard the heads lopped off statues of Lenin, miners who dig up mass graves while looking for gold, and all the addicts, convicts, fallen heroes and even sportsmen who run away from their troubles and end up in the most remote region in Russia</p>

Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s Haunted Hinterland

History

Russia

Granta Books

Chris Niedenthal jest polakiem z niemieckim nazwiskiem i brytyjskim obywatelstwem.

Polska hzeczpospolita ludowa rekwizyty

Bosz

Diarios de Kolimá: En autostop por la Rusia extrema (Caja Alta) (Spanish Edition)

La Caja Books

En el valle del paraíso: Viaje a las ruinas de la URSS

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Caja Alta

JACEK HUGO-BADER - FEBBRE BIAN

Reference

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