The Woman Who Walked to Russia: A Writer's Search for a Lost Legend
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From the moment Cassandra Pybus first heard about Lillian Alling's trek across North America, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. This is how it went: Desperate with homesickness, Lillian Alling, a recent immigrant to the United States from the Soviet Union, haunted the New York Public Library, studying the atlas to establish the most direct route home to her native Russia. Her English was poor but she understood the hieroglyphics of cartography. In the spring of 1927, aided only by a hand-drawn map, she started to walk home. Pybus searched for clues about this enigmatic pedestrian. When her historical sleuthing yielded little, she set out on her own trek to trace Lillian's route through the wilderness of northwestern Canada and subarctic Alaska and Siberia. The result is an entertaining travel narrative that pieces together Alling's journey through the natural beauty and rich history of northwestern North America -- a story never before told.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1568582900
ISBN13:9781568582900
Release Date:December 2003
Publisher:Thunder's Mouth Press
Length:238 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 7.7"
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Adventure Australian Canada Ethnic & National General Russia Specialty Travel Travel Travel Writing WritingCustomer Reviews
1 rating
an entertaining read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
I really enjoyed this book, reading it in just over a day. It is true what the other reviewers say about the actual content being more about the author than the supposed subject, but I found it to be a very accessible history lesson in regards to immigration, and the gold rush in British Colombia, as well as a thorough description of the stunning landscape. It is more a travelog I found. I am amazed someone has such an intense curiosity to unravel a story as to go through all she had to (and that there was a grant to fund it).
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