by Sylvain Tesson · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221100417
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«L'axe du loup» is the travelogue by Sylvain Tesson, published by Robert Laffont in 2004, in paperback (215 pages, in French).
Sylvain Tesson alone retraces the route of the gulag escapees from Siberia to the Bay of Bengal, on foot, on horseback and by bicycle. He crosses the taiga, the Mongolian steppe, the Gobi Desert and the Tibetan plateau to Darjeeling, to pay tribute to those who yearned for freedom and to experience cold, hunger and extreme solitude.
The full title includes the subtitle «de la Sibérie à l'Inde, sur les pas des évadés du Goulag».
For those who enjoy travel writing and true stories of resistance and survival.
Sylvain Tesson is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are The Consolations of the Forest (2011), about a project to live alone in a Siberian cabin for six months and The Art of Patience (2019), about the quest for snow leopards in Tibet. For the latter book, he received the Prix Renaudot.
