Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile, Wheeler, Sara

Автор: Wheeler, Sara
Название: Magnetic north
ISBN: 0099516888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099516880
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, the author discovers a complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery.

Автор: Wheeler, Sara
Название: Chile: travels in a thin country
ISBN: 0349120013 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349120010
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction.

Автор: Wheeler, Sara
Название: Access All Areas
ISBN: 1787330001 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787330009
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In a series of remarkable books - Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry Garrard, Too Close to the Sun and The Magnetic North - Sara Wheeler has shown that she is not only one of the finest travel writers of her generation but a very fine biographer too.

Автор: Wheeler, Sara
Название: Mud And Stars
ISBN: 052556540X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525565406
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Searching for a Russia not in the news, author Sara Wheeler embarks on an adventure inspired by the country's great literary legacy. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, Wheeler travels from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nation­alities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. With her, we see the fabled Trigorskoye ("three hills") estate that Pushkin frequented during his exile, now preserved in his honor. We look for Dostoevsky along the waters of Lake Ilmen, site of the only house the restless writer ever owned. We pay tribute to the single stone that remains of Tol­stoy's birthplace. Wheeler weaves these writers' lives and works around their historical homes, giving us rich portraits of the many diverse Russias from which these writers spoke.

As she travels, Wheeler follows local guides, boards with families in modest homestays, eats roe and pelmeni and cabbage soup, invokes recipes from Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, learns the language, and observes the pattern of outcry and silence that characterizes life under Vladimir Putin. Illustrated with both historical images and contemporary snapshots of the peo­ple and places that shaped her journey, Mud and Stars gives us timely, witty, and deeply personal insights into Russia, then and now.

Автор: Wheeler, Sara
Название: Mud and Stars
ISBN: 0099584131 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099584131
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Wheeler, Sara
Название: Cherry
ISBN: 0099437538 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099437536
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Описание: Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. `But we kept our tempers,` Cherry wrote, `even with God.`After serving in the First War Cherry was invalided home, and with the zealous encouragement of his neighbour Bernard Shaw he wrote a masterpiece.