The Spirit-Wrestlers

In Russian villages unseen by outsiders since before the revolution, Phillip Marsden encounters men and women of courage, dazed by the century's turbulence. He meets such figures as the Yezidi Sheikh of Sheikhs, Pushkin the wandering doctor and an exiled Georgian prince.

Auteur

Philip Marsden has written several highly-praised and award-winning travel books including 'The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians', 'The Bronski House', 'The Spirit-Wrestlers' and 'Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance' and one novel, 'The Main Cages'. He lives in Cornwall.

Texte du rabat

Compelling account of a journey through the far south of the old Russian empire, known to its peoples as "the edge of the world". Marsden visits villages unseen by Westerners since before the revolution, meeting many larger-than-life characters on the way; an exiled Georgian prince, wandering doctors, strutting Cossacks, survivors of the gulags, and isolated sects of "Spirit-Wrestlers". "Magnificent... a Polish )Wild Swans( meets )Dr Zhivago(" William Dalrymple, )Sunday Times(.

Résumé
The new book from the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House.