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It's Warm in Siberia - Travel Stories and Photographs from a Solo Journey Across the USSR in 1984

It's Warm in Siberia - Travel Stories and Photographs from a Solo Journey Across the USSR in 1984

Gates, Jon Humboldt
Sanborn, Katie
Hanley, Beverly

Paperback

Travel WritingEastern EuropeGeneral Europe

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1878136046
ISBN13: 9781878136046
Publisher: Moonstone Publishing
Published: Jul 11 2023
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 1984, Jon Humboldt Gates, having spent two years studying Russian and planning his journey, left his rural home on the California north coast and landed on the shores of the Soviet Far East by ship via Japan. He spent the next eight weeks traveling by rail and automobile through Russia and Ukraine, riding the full length of the Trans-Siberian Railway, driving alone for hundreds of kilometers through Russia and traveling south to the Black Sea. Along the way, he met scores of people from all walks of life, most of whom had never met an American; an old woman with six white geese on a country road who pleaded with him for peace, a 14-year-old boy from Siberia who shared his love for dogs, a man who invited him to plunge into the icy waters of Lake Baikal, a group of musicians in Kyiv (Kiev in 1984) who became the seed of a transnational music project, and an ice cream flavor Baskin-Robbins had never imagined. He formed deep friendships, some that were lasting, others that were celebrated in the moment.

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