The border : a journey around Russia : through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage / Erika Fatland ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson.
611 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Note
First published in the Norwegian language as Grensen by Kagge Forlag in 2017.
Language
In English, translated from the Norwegian.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 596-602) and index.
Contents
The ocean -- Asia -- The Caucasus -- Europe -- Brief outline of the history of Russia.
Summary
"The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe."--Book jacket.
Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has always been a towering and intimidating neighbor. What would it be like to traverse the entirety of the Russian periphery to examine its effects on those closest to her? Fatland has created a book about Russia-- without ever entering Russia itself. She gets to the heart of what it has meant to be the neighbor of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history, as readers experience the colorful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations along with their cultures, their people, their landscapes. -- adapted from jacket