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CHECK LOWEST PRICES Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia caviar red for CHEAPEST HOT PRODUCT ON LINE BLACK FRIDAY DEALS 2011... Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia Overviews      With this brilliant account of his journey—at once edge-of-your-seat exciting and literary—Mark Jenkins established himself as the master of adventure/travel writing. In 1989 he and six companions—two Americans and four Russians—set out on an arduous, first-ever crossing of Siberia by bike, cycling across rutted dirt roads, swamps, the Ural Mountains, and through Moscow and Leningrad.      This beautifully repackaged edition of Jenkins's travel classic vividly chronicles the highlights of this amazing voyage, including a month spent biking through an 800-mile swamp and the team's interactions with some fascinating characters—from the widow who makes Mark sleep in her dead son's bed to the Lithuanian searching for the concentration camp where his wife spent her childhood. Combining the exhilaration of record-setting adventure with thoughtful introspection, Jenkins's words allow readers to recognize the extraordinary in the day-to-day lives of ordinary Russians.      USA Today called Off the Map "a literary epic." Newsweek declared "the ornery, observant Jenkins [is] good company on every page." And Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, wrote: "Jenkins is a master of the fundamental writer's talent: an ability to see things in new ways, as no one has ever seen them before."   .../ Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia / caviar red

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I truly enjoyed this book. When I'm not reading fiction I like to read voyage books. Obviously the branch matter was intelligent (to me, anyway) - a road bike trip over Siberia - much of which was essentially roadless; but this one was unique in a combine of ways.

First of all it was an unusual shape - the book. Tall narrow pages. Different. But more importantly it was well edited. This book could have been seven hundred pages but it was joyfully succinct. The author didn't feel the need to tell us all things that happened along his four or five month bike ride over Siberia; instead he focuses on distinct intelligent aspects of the trip and skips the rest. He follows Elmore Leonard's advice: "Leave out the parts habitancy skip."

But the best part was the unique writing style. The author sticks to standard record style for the most part, but switches, at times, to interior monologue and even stream of consciousness - but just sufficient to remain interesting.

A intelligent work of voyage literature - very recommended.

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