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Title: |
To a Distant Island |
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| By (author): |
James McConkey |
| ISBN10-13: |
0966491351 : 9780966491357 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
135x225mm |
| Pages: |
203 |
| Weight: |
.325 Kg. |
| Published: |
Paul Dry Books, Inc - October 2000 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Biography: literary |
| In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, James McConkey traveled to Italy and researched Chekhov's letters, memoirs, and an account of his journey to Sakhalin island. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives. |
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