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

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.