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Mud and Stars - Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age (Hardcover)
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Mud and Stars - Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 170
You Save R111 (18%)
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020*
There is a literal Russian landscape, and there is its emotional,
literary counterpart. In Mud and Stars, award-winning writer Sara
Wheeler sets out to explore both. With the writers of the Golden
Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among
others - Wheeler travels across eight time zones, from rinsed
north-western beetroot fields and far-eastern Arctic tundra to the
cauldron of ethnic soup that is the Caucasus. She follows
nineteenth-century footsteps to make connections between then and
now: between the places where flashing-epauletted Lermontov died in
the aromatic air of Pyatigorsk, and sheaves of corn still stand
like soldiers on a blazing afternoon, just like in Gogol's stories.
On the Trans-Siberian railway in winter she crunches across snowy
platforms to buy dried fish from babushki, and in summer she sails
the Black Sea where dolphins leapt in front of violet Abkhazian
peaks. She also spends months in fourth-floor 1950s apartments,
watching television with her hosts, her new friends bent over
devices and moaning about Ukraine. At a time of deteriorating
relations between Russia and the West, Wheeler searches for a
Russia not in the news - a Russia of humanity and daily struggles.
She gives voice to the 'ordinary' people of Russia, and discovers
how the writers of the Golden Age continue to represent their
country today. 'A superlative tour of modern-day Russia and the
nation's great writers, subjects Wheeler combines with panache.'
Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times
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