Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga

ISBN-13: 9780141975481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str.

Sylvain Tesson

Opis

Sylvain Tesson found a radical solution to his need for freedom: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. From February to July 2010 he lived in silence, solitude and cold. Emotionally, these months proved a challenge, and the loneliness was crippling. Noting carefully, almost daily, his impressions of the silence, his struggles to survive in a hostile nature, his despair, his doubts, but also his moments of ecstasy, inner peace and harmony with nature, Sylvain shares with us his extraordinary experience.

O autorze

Writer, journalist and traveller, Sylvain Tesson is France's 'most brilliant travel writer' (L'Express). After a world tour by bicycle in 1993-1994, he developed a passion for Central Asia, and in 1997 he crossed the Himalayas on foot. For seven months in 2003, he followed the journey of escapees from the Gulag, which brought him to international prominence with his remarkable travelogue, Axis of Wolf. Consolations of the Forest won the Prix Medicis in 2011.