The Border - A Journey Around Russia Av Erika Fatland

<p><b><font></b><b>"Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics'' most exciting new travel writers" <i>National Geographic</i></b><br><b><br>**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**</b><br><br><b>"A hauntingly lyrical meditation to the contingencies of history"<i> Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br><b>"[An] impressive mix of history, reportage and travel memoir" <i>Washington Post</i></font><br></b><br><i>The Border</i> is a book about Russia and Russian history without its author ever entering Russia itself; a book about being the neighbour of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history. It is a chronicle of the colourful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations, their cultures, their people, their landscapes.<br><br>Through her last three documentary books - one about terrorism in Beslan, one about the 2011 terror attacks in Norway and one about post-Soviet Central Asia - social anthropologist