by Colin Thubron · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780060959296
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«Among the Russians» is Colin Thubron's travelogue, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Colin Thubron recounts a 10,000-mile journey through cities and rural areas of western Russia during the final years of the Soviet Union. He weaves history, architecture and iconography with portraits of its inhabitants and their culture, offering an intimate look at a country in transformation as the regime came to an end.
The book inaugurates Colin Thubron's Russian trilogy. The work was originally published in 1983; this edition is from 2000.
For readers of travel literature and history, and for those wishing to approach Soviet culture and society in its final years.
Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, between 2009 and 2017, was President of the Royal Society of Literature.
