River of No Reprieve 2007

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Describes the author's perilous 2,400-mile journey down the Lena River, from Lake Baikal above the Arctic Circle through the heart of Siberia, re-creating an odyssey first made by the Cossacks more than three centuries earlier, and details his close encounters with the region's primeval beauty, Cossack villages, Soviet outposts, ruined gulags, and a surly guide. Reprint.

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Books by Jeffrey Tayler:

• Angry Wind (2005)
• Siberian Dawn (2000)
• River of No Reprieve (2007)