Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age by Sara Wheeler

Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age

Sara Wheeler

304 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative inspiring slow-paced
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With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldr...

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informative 100%
adventurous 60%
lighthearted 60%
challenging 20%
emotional 20%
funny 20%
reflective 20%

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medium 50%

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