Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, publishers, London - first edition, 1981
ISBN 10: 0575029366 ISBN 13: 9780575029361
Seller: Book Orphanage, McCrae, VIC, Australia
hardcover, 6½" x 9¼", with dust jacket 296 pages Map endpapers (Trans-Siberian Railway route), select bibliography, and index. The author, a newspaper correspondent, left Moscow after two yeas and traveled from Europe to Asia along the 5,800 miles of the Trans-Siberian Railway; she shared the compartment with a Russian family. History, especially the repression by Tsarist and Stalinist, comes on board too. As well, the Brezhnev reversal of Khrushchev's populist policies is happening as she travels. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket.