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    One Steppe Beyond: Across Russia in a VW Camper

    By Thom Wheeler

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    Traveling across the former Soviet Union is a challenge at the best of times—doing so in a dilapidated VW is just that much more of an adventure A chance job offer at a timber yard in Estonia gives Thom and his old pal Jo a taste for the unknown. So when Uncle Tony asks them to drive to Vladivostok for another job, they can’t think of a good reason why not. The result is a classic caper across the former Soviet Union in Max, a rusty old VW camper. Knowing little of the language or the geography ahead, they embark on probably the longest commute ever, encountering corrupt officials, film star mechanics, and over-friendly gangsters. Far off the tourist trail, they bear witness to the collapse of one nation and the birth of a new one during the free-for-all that was Russia in the 1990s.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummersdale
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9780857653277
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    One Steppe Beyond: Across Russia in a VW Camper
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    Thom Wheeler

    Thom Wheeler is a writer with an interest in travel and a particular interest in regions of the ex Soviet Union. He has lived for extended periods of time in Georgia, Estonia, Ukraine and Russia. He has contributed to various publications, and appeared on BBC Radio and Talk Radio Europe. Thom is the first person to drive a campervan across the Russian Federation (from Tallinn to Vladivostok) - a journey recounted in his book 'One Steppe Beyond'. He lives in Brighton.

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    • 1/5
      nonfiction; travel memoir (1997 Russia).
      Sometimes droll but mostly dull; the journey from one end of the continent to the other somehow progresses without going anywhere--lacks narrative and character.
    • 4/5
      Not brilliantly written, but an interesting story about probably the first person to drive a camper van across Russia