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Lädt ... The Woman Who Walked to Russia: A Writer's Search for a Lost Legendvon Cassandra Pybus
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Of the 238 pages, most of them have nothing to do with the woman who walked to Russia. There are long passages retelling/discussing the writings of Jack London, John McPhee, and Jon Krakauer, and other whole sections on her side of the psychodrama between her and an old friend who is her driver on the trip. She did relate something new to me from history: two expeditions of Sir John Franklin--both of which involved cannibalism and the second of which no one survived. Eventually she does get to the bottom of her subject and (spoiler alert) debunks earlier journalistic accounts of a woman walking to Russia, but this is almost an afterthought. It's really a travelogue of her research trip, which seems ill-planned even in the context of late 1990s nascent internet. The subtitle says it all. ( ) Basically a travel narrative which follows an Austraulian woman and her travel campanian across the US and Canadian countryside following the "tracks" of a Russian woman she had heard had walked back to Russia because she was homesick. A very interesting read. http://talesofarampaginglibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/07/away.html Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
From the moment Cassandra Pybus first heard about Lillian Alling's trek across North America, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. This is how it went: Desperate with homesickness, Lillian Alling, a recent immigrant to the United States from the Soviet Union, haunted the New York Public Library, studying the atlas to establish the most direct route home to her native Russia. Her English was poor but she understood the hieroglyphics of cartography. In the spring of 1927, aided only by a hand-drawn map, she started to walk home. Pybus searched for clues about this enigmatic pedestrian. When her historical sleuthing yielded little, she set out on her own trek to trace Lillian's route through the wilderness of northwestern Canada and subarctic Alaska and Siberia. The result is an entertaining travel narrative that pieces together Alling's journey through the natural beauty and rich history of northwestern North America -- a story never before told. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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