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By Elina Mishuris (Washington Square News, NYU)

Elina Mishuris in her review of Ian Frazier´s `Travels in Siberia´looks into a world that is very different to her own. As she writes:

"The truism that the world is shrinking, like most other maxims, does not apply in Siberia. Governments may change, travelers will come and go, and yet still, Siberia remains immense (it stretches across eight time zones) and unknowable".

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