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The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga
By Tesson, Sylvain
- ISBN
- 9780847841271 9780847841400
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
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Reviewed on September 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
French writer and Prix Médicis winner Tesson fulfilled an early promise to himself to live alone in the woods by spending six months in a tiny cabin on Lake Baikal in Siberia. Driving over a lake covered by a nearly four-foot-thick sheet of ice to reach his cabin, Tesson leaves behind not only his life in France but also the supermarkets of Irkutsk (one of the largest cities in Siberia) and even t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
