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Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia

Jenkins relates the invigorating experiences he shared as part of a team of three Americans and four Russians who set the world record for bicycling, riding from Vladivostock to Leningrad. "An epic tour of one of the world's most forbidding and legendary regions".—San Francisco Chronicle. Illustrations.

Subject
travel
Genre
adventure
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 254 pages

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