Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga

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The bestselling and award-winning book about living in Siberia for six months by France's most brilliant travel writer, now in paperback Sylvain Tesson, found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia- he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. Noting carefully his impressions of the silence, Sylvain Tesson shares with us an extraordinary experience.

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Writer, journalist and traveller, Sylvain Tesson is France's 'most brilliant travel writer' (L'Express). After a world tour by bicycle in 1993-1994, he developed a passion for Central Asia, and in 1997 he crossed the Himalayas on foot. For seven months in 2003, he followed the journey of escapees from the Gulag, which brought him to international prominence with his remarkable travelogue, Axis of Wolf. Consolations of the Forest won the Prix Medicis in 2011.