The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga
Sylvain Tesson, Linda Coverdale (Translator),Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Rizzoli on 09-17-2013
Sylvain Tesson, Linda Coverdale (Translator),Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Rizzoli on 09-17-2013
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780847841271 (0847841278)
ASIN: 847841278
Publish date: September 17th 2013
Publisher: Rizzoli Ex Libris
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Cultural,
Environment,
Nature,
Philosophy,
Russia,
France,
Outdoors
Living for six months. alone in an isolated cabin in the Siberian Taiga, not sure of the location, the intense cold but living and being alone sounds awfully good at times. The author arrives in February and stays until the end of July, so he deals with the intense cold first, but he has brought ple...
For an intentional hermit, wilderness trekker Sylvain Tesson has a surprising amount of company during his six-month retreat in Siberia. Though he deliberately exiles himself to a remote one-room cabin for solitary contemplation, he ends up developing new relationships with his environment, its anim...