Border : a journey around Russia : through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage

Fatland, Erika 1983- (author.). Dickson, Kari, (translator.).

Summary: Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has always been a towering and intimidating neighbor. What would it be like to traverse the entirety of the Russian periphery to examine its effects on those closest to her? An astute and brilliant combination of lyric travel writing and modern history, The Border is a book about Russia without its author ever entering Russia itself. Fatland gets to the heart of what it has meant to be the neighbor of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history. As we follow Fatland on her journey, we experience the colorful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations along with their cultures, their people, their landscapes.

Record details

ISBN: 9781643139494 (paperback)
Physical Description: 611 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 21 cm
regular print
print
Edition: First Pegasus Books paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

General Note:	First published in the Norwegian language as Grensen by Kagge Forlag in 2017.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The ocean -- Asia -- The Caucasus -- Europe -- Brief outline of the history of Russia.
Language Note:	In English, translated from the Norwegian.