The Spirit-Wrestlers - And Other Survivors of the Russian Century

Informationen zum Autor Philip Marsden has written several highly-praised and award-winning travel books – including ‘The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians’, ‘The Bronski House’, ‘The Spirit-Wrestlers’ and ‘Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance’ – and one novel, ‘The Main Cages’. He lives in Cornwall. Klappentext Compelling account of a journey through the far south of the old Russian empire! known to its peoples as "the edge of the world". Marsden visits villages unseen by Westerners since before the revolution! meeting many larger-than-life characters on the way; an exiled Georgian prince! wandering doctors! strutting Cossacks! survivors of the gulags! and isolated sects of "Spirit-Wrestlers". "Magnificent... a Polish )Wild Swans( meets )Dr Zhivago(" William Dalrymple! )Sunday Times(. Zusammenfassung The new book from the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Marsden, Philip Marsden-Smedley
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1999
• EAN: 9780006388777
• ISBN: 978-0-00-638877-7
• No. of pages: 249
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Russia, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Russia, Travel writing, Journey;Trek