Reviews

River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny by Jeffrey Tayler

garcia12aj's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

4.25

lizlogan's review against another edition

4.0

Well-written with some achingly beautiful and visual sentences. I knew in picking up this book that I would enjoy it as I have enjoyed this author before. I also learned a lot about Russia and its minority cultures. I am, as always, impressed by Mr. Taylor’s writing prowess.

marcella's review

4.0

I liked this way more than I expected to. The protagonist gave the impression of being a classic "colonialism is inspiring," kind of guy who likes to charge into expeditions without adequate preparation. A real Shackleton.

While I'm not entirely sure that he isn't such a person, he wrote a book that is mostly about other people and their relationship to their country and history. Vivid descriptions and bleak outlooks and people being kind of happy in spite of it and other people just being tragically, perpetually drunk because there's nothing else for them kept me engaged.

I don't foresee an end to my continuous interest in books about north woods.