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With this brilliant account of his journeyat once edge-of-your-seat exciting and literaryMark Jenkins established himself as the master of adventure/travel writing. In 1989 he and six companionstwo Americans and four Russiansset out on an arduous, first-ever crossing of Siberia by bike, cycling across rutted dirt roads, swamps, the Ural Mountains, and through Moscow and Leningrad. This beautifully repackaged edition of Jenkins's travel classic vividly chronicles the highlights of this amazing voyage, including a month spent biking through an 800-mile swamp and the team's interactions with some fascinating charactersfrom the widow who makes Mark sleep in her dead son's bed to the Lithuanian searching for the concentration camp where his wife spent her childhood. Combining the exhilaration of record-setting adventure with thoughtful introspection, Jenkins's words allow readers to recognize the extraordinary in the day-to-day lives of ordinary Russians. USA TodaycalledOff the Map"a literary epic."Newsweekdeclared "the ornery, observant Jenkins [is] good company on every page." And Robert Pirsig, author ofZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, wrote: "Jenkins is a master of the fundamental writer's talent: an ability to see things in new ways, as no one has ever seen them before."Jenkins, Mark is the author of 'Off the Map' with ISBN 9781594867644 and ISBN 159486764X.
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