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As strange as its stunning, as forbidding because it is filled with warm hearted people, Syberia is just a property several Westerners understand, and even fewer will actually visit. Touring alone, by train, ship, car, and on-foot, Colin Thubron traversed this huge place, talking-to everyone he encountered concerning the state-of the wonder, whose natural assets have now been cruelly used for many years; a landscape tainted by atomic waste but full of people who equally accepted him and provided him—despite their very own heartbreaking poverty. From Mongoloia for the Artic Circle, from Rasputin's town in the northwest through tundra, taiga, mountains, seas, streams, and lastly to some derelict Jewish neighborhood in the united states's asian reaches, Colin Thubron permeates only a little-understood area of the globe in ways that no author ever has.