October 1812, Napoleon enters Moscow. The Russians have set fire to the city, soon it will be reduced to a pile of ash. The Emperor equivocates, decides to turn back. This is the beginning of the retreat from Russia, a page of history that has become legendary for its degree of suffering and horror, but also for the heroic acts that took place.Two hundred years later, Sylvain Tesson, accompanied by four friends (two Russians and two French), decides to follow the route of the retreat. Perched on two Soviet Ural sidecar motorcycles, they will rejoin Paris from Moscow, guided only by the spectres of the two hundred thousand soldiers who died through cold, starvation, and in battle. Twenty five hundred miles travelled in a wild escapade to salute the ghosts of history, across the white plains of Russia.
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Moscow to Paris in a sidecar: an epic, crazy 2,500 mile road trip following Napoleon's retreat
“A hermit's vodka-tossed praise-poem to retreat and solitude.” (on The Consolations of the Forest)
Moscow to Paris in a sidecar: an epic, crazy 2,500 mile road trip following Napoleon’s retreat

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781787701885
Publisert
2019-11-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Europa Compass
Høyde
180 mm
Bredde
120 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Oversetter

Biographical note

Sylvain Tesson is an award-winning French writer and traveller. A geographer by training, he has travelled the world using many different methods of transportation including bicycle, train, horse, and even on foot. The Consolations of the Forest (Penguin, 2013) was adapted into a film in 2016. Katherine Gregor translates from Italian, Russian and French. She is also a playwright and a fiction writer and maintains a regular blog.