The Border - A Journey Around Russia
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 608
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780857057785
- Utgivelsesår: 2021
- Bidragsyter: Fatland, Erika
"Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics'' most exciting new travel writers" National Geographic
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**
"A hauntingly lyrical meditation to the contingencies of history" Wall Street Journal
"[An] impressive mix of history, reportage and travel memoir" Washington Post
The Border is a book about Russia and Russian history without its author ever entering Russia itself; a book about being the neighbour of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history. It is a chronicle of the colourful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations, their cultures, their people, their landscapes.
Through her last three documentary books - one about terrorism in Beslan, one about the 2011 terror attacks in Norway and one about post-Soviet Central Asia - social anthropologist