Showing Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals by Dervla Murphy

Paperback. Pub Date: 01 May 2008 Pages: 304 Publisher: Hodder Silverland charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through The snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia No stranger to the adventure of the intrepid of septuagenarian's MID-winter journey takes her beyond Siberia to the furthest Corners of Russia - areas proximate to Japan. Mongolia and the Arctic Circle. Here she discovers a strange world of lynx and elks. indigenous tribes and shamanism. reindeer oth and taiga-berry pie. She takes the coal-fuelled slow-train around regions hardly exposed to tourism and there she meets a host of colourful and generous characters. They invite this unconventional Irish Babushka into their homes where she enjoys fascinating fireside debate bolstered by steaming samovars of sweet tea. Just like its author. Silverland is insightful. warm and truly original .