The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin

The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga Sylvain Tesson
Publisher: Rizzoli

Mar 14, 2014 - Consolations of the Forest (Allen Lane, hardback). Dec 3, 2013 - Here's the opening from The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga by Sylvain Tesson. Sylvain Tesson; Translated by Linda Coverdale. On Sale Date: September 17, 2013. (Rizzoli International Publications, $24.95, HC, 9780847841271). Sylvain Tesson's account of six months living alone in a ten foot cabin by Lake Baikal in Siberia is an idiosyncratic meditation on solitude and hermitage, although Siberia's It's also the most boozy nature book I've ever read, with Tesson downing shots with the woodsmen of the taiga, or just gobbling down the shots by himself before sliding around on the frozen turquoise ice of the lake. Sep 23, 2013 - The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga. Dec 7, 2013 - The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga The Consolations of the Forest By Sylvain Tesson Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale Publisher: Rizzoli Ex Libris Pub. Http://tinyurl.com/fiusiberian. Apr 25, 2013 - The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga by Sylvain Tesson, Linda Coverdale (Translated by). The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga. From French by Linda Coverdale. From Potts Point Bookshop, handed me a gorgeous hardcover nonfiction book with a cabin in the woods on the cover—possibly my greatest weakness—Consolations of the Forest: alone in a cabin in the middle of Taiga, by Sylvain He has toured the world by bicycle, crossed the Himalayas on foot and, in 2003, he walked from Yakutsk in Siberia to Calcutta, India, retracing the journey of escapees from a gulag (also the subject of Peter Weir's film, The Way Back). The translation from French was done by Linda Coverdale.