The Trans-Siberian Railway: From Moscow to the Pacific Ocean
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3765817376 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 191 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Some 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) of track and seven time zones!Luxury trains and simple wagons, endless taiga, and the clearest lakein the world: a trip with the Trans-Siberian Railway promises manyhighlights. Anne and Olaf Meinhardt spent six months travelingthrough the gorgeous landscape of Siberia towards Mongolia andChina, have tasted borscht, picnicked at the shores of Lake Baikal,and strolled through dreamy birch forests. Impressive photos andspecial reports tell the tale of the expanse and beauty of the differentlandscapes.
"The Iron Curtain has truly lifted here." according to Fulcrum29. Just a fabulous book! I quite frankly cannot believe this fine book has not been reviewed. I picked this book up on Amazon subsidiary Abebooks from a book store in Wales. This is the best collection of pictures I've seen of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which was until the early 1990's, a remote, but hardly insignificant railroad route. The width of this railway (7 time zones) is covered in no other book as it is done here by the authors. The pictures really represent an amazing cross-section of Russia, with excellent city and country photographs. This book was a monumental undertaking in every way, and Anne and Olaf Mein