Driving Down Russias Spine
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On one level, this book is the story of an epic 6000-kilometer road trip from the frigid shores of the Barents Sea to Sochi, Russia’s southernmost tip on the Black Sea. Dubbed "The Spine of Russia," the adventure tasked a mismatched duo of Russian and American journalists with capturing a view of Russia from the ground, to collect powerful images and honest human stories that offered a more subtle, complex picture of the world's largest country.But this book is far more than just a travel essay. For it intertwines fascinating subject profiles with digressions into historical and cultural themes relevant to understanding modern Russia. It is a story told with humor and with the insight derived from the author’s three decades of intimate interactions with Russia. Among the many interesting stories in the book:An expedition to “The Well to Hell”A music school in one of the most polluted towns on earthAn energetic youth activist branded as a foreign agentRussia’s largest manufacturer of barbells (who also makes cloudberry preserves)A roadside berry seller recently paroled from prisonA blacksmith who is a Jehovah’s WitnessA bone-chilling trip to the foundation place of the Russian stateThe slightly off-kilter leader of St. Petersburg’s Cossack communityA retired village doctor who can’t stop working, because he won’t be replacedA piece of Nebraska transplanted into the middle of Russia’s Black Earth regionThere were also craft beer makers, ballroom dancers, policemen, restaurant owners, an opera student, a priest, a single mother, an accessibility activist, teachers, docents, a best-selling author, soap makers, journalists, a sailor, a winemaker, and a woman taking on the male-dominated world of Russian hockey. And no trip to Russia would be complete without a run-in with security officials in leather jackets. So there is also that.Taken together, the stories from this epi
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