- Published: 30 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446484623
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
The Journals Of A White Sea Wolf
- Published: 30 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446484623
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
the extraordinary record of six years spent by a Polish journalist on the Solovetski Islands the book evokes a Russia in miniature. By turns poetic, learned, pretentious, harshly evocative, it creates its own dense, surreal world, which tells more about the inner nature of Russia than a library of others.
Colin Thubron, Sunday Telegraph
by turns grouchy and lyrical, [Wilk] draws out the essence of the Solovetski islands in Russia s far north and, in the process, provides unique insight into the country itself.
Caroline Gascoigne, The Sunday Times