
Berezina
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Lire Magazine Best Travel Book
Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history's most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you've got Sylvain Tesson's Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines travel, history, comradery, and adventure.
The retreat of Napoleon's Grande Armée from Russia culminated, after a humiliating loss, with the crossing of the River Berezina, a word that henceforth became synonymous with unmitigated disaster for the French and national pride for the Russians. Two hundred years after this battle, Sylvain Tesson and his friends retrace Napoleon's retreat, along the way reflecting on the lessons of history, the meaning of defeat, and the realities of contemporary Europe. A great read for history buffs and for anyone who has ever dreamed of an adventure that is out of the ordinary.
"Wonderfully mad." - The Times
"The narration is wry and marked by a cheerful fatalism. Mr. Tesson is a witty and knowledgeable road companion." -The Wall Street Journal
"From beginning to end, the story of Berezina is enthralling, funny, and terrifying. At the same time, it is magnificently written." -RTL
" Berezina succeeds brilliantly as a sly commentary on-and a challenge to conventional thinking about-today's contention between Russia and the EU, and the rutted habits of the popular Western mind." -On the Seawall
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Sylvain Tesson has traveled the world by bicycle, train, horse, and motorcycle, and on foot. His bestselling accounts of his travels have won numerous prizes, including the Dolman Best Travel Book Award. Berezina is his first book to appear in English.
Katherine Gregor translates from Italian, Russian and French. She is also a playwright and a fiction writer and maintains a regular blog at scribedoll.wordpress.com.
Content
- Intro
- BEREZINA
- JULY, BAFFIN ISLAND. SIX MONTHS PRIOR TO DEPARTURE
- A FEW DAYS BEFORE DEPARTURE. MOSCOW, NOVEMBER
- DAY ONE. FROM MOSCOW TO BORODINO
- DAY TWO. FROM BORODINO TO VYAZMA
- DAY THREE. FROM VYAZMA TO SMOLENSK
- DAY FOUR. FROM SMOLENSK TO BARYSAV
- DAY FIVE. FROM BARYSAW TO VILNIUS
- DAY SIX. FROM VILNIUS TO AUGUSTÓW
- DAY SEVEN. FROM AUGUSTÓW TO WARSAW
- DAY EIGHT. FROM WARSAW TO PNIEWY
- DAY NINE. FROM PNIEWY TO BERLIN
- DAY TEN. FROM BERLIN TO NAUMBURG
- DAY ELEVEN. FROM NAUMBURG TO BAD KREUZNACH
- DAY TWELVE. FROM BAD KREUZNACH TO REIMS
- LAST DAY. FROM REIMS TO THE INVALIDES (PARIS)
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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