 |
Earn
money from your website as an affiliate of our on-line bookshop at
Pickabook.co.uk and Pickabook.com
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
RUSSIA
A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF A LAND AND ITS PEOPLE |
| By: |
Jonathan Dimbleby |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£25.00 |
| Our price: |
£16.75 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£8.25 |
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0563539127 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780563539124 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched immediately.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently
247 items
in stock |
| Publisher: |
EBURY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2008 |
| Pages: |
576 |
| Description: |
Offers a critical look at the way Russia was run during the Putin years. This book contains honest passages as the author struggles to meet the challenges of an arduous film trip against the backdrop of great turbulence in his personal life. It contains an array of historical and literary references and offers an account of modern Russia. |
| Synopsis: |
Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. Even today it remains a country little understood by the West. But as a resurgent world power, with an energy-rich economy, we ignore Russia at our peril. In this timely and revealing portrait, distinguished author and broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers 10,000 miles, from Murmansk in the Arctic Circle to the Asian city of Vladivostok, in an attempt to get beneath the skin of modern Russia. Travelling by road, rail and boat, his epic journey takes him from the neo-classical splendour of St Petersburg to remote and inaccessible parts of Siberia. At the heart of this magisterial account are Jonathan's encounters with a diverse range of ordinary Russians - from urban intellectuals and the new class of entrepreneurs, to impoverished peasants and Russia's ethnic minorities struggling to cling to their distinctive identities.Jonathan was the only British television journalist to interview President Gorbachev during the Cold War, and, returning to Russia for the first time since those days, he discovers a land transformed.But despite economic progress, he finds aspects of Russian society deeply troubling, and takes an unflinchingly critical look at the way Russia has been run during the Putin years. For Jonathan, crossing the immense Russian landmass became as much an interior journey as an exterior one, and the book contains painfully honest passages as he struggles to meet the challenges of an arduous film trip against the backdrop of great turbulence in his personal life. Filled with a dazzling array of historical and literary references, "Russia - A Journey to the Heart of a Land and Its People" is a riveting and illuminating account of modern Russia. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
BBC Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
Down River
Adam Chase left North Carolina five years ago. Now he has no alternative but to return - and being thought of as a murderer doesn't help. Then more murder victims are discovered. As the past threatens to overshadow the present, Adam becomes the prime suspect for the new murders. Only he can clear his name. This book has been selected as one of Richard and Judy's Summer Reads 2008.
|
Princess Margaret
Princess Margaret was the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Tim Heald's vivid and elegant biography portrays a woman who was beautiful and sexually alluring, and whose reputation for naughtiness co-existed with the glamour. With extraordinary help from those closest to Princess Margaret, Heald asks why one of the most loved little girls in the world, and a juvenile wartime sweetheart, ended her life reviled and ignored.
|
The Mozart Conspiracy
An ancient murder! A clandestine society! A conspiracy that will end in death...Former SAS operative Ben Hope is running for his life. Enlisted by the beautiful Leigh Llewellyn - world famous opera star and Ben's first love - to investigate her brother's mysterious death, Ben finds himself caught up in a centuries-old puzzle. An electrifying and utterly gripping must read for fans of Dan Brown, Sam Bourne and Ludlum's Bourne series.
|
|
|