Colin Thubron has called Siberia ‘the ultimate unearthly abroad’, the ‘place from which you will not return’.
Colin Thubron has called Siberia ‘the ultimate unearthly abroad’, the ‘place from which you will not return’. Many millions have not — Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn were lucky — but these days quite a few do, and most of them seem to write books about it.

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