Jeffrey Tayler: 5 books
River of No Reprieve
Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous isolation.
In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to...
Glory in a Camel’s Eye
A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
An “amazing” true account of traveling with Bedouins through a drought-stricken North African landscape (The Boston Globe).
Having journeyed in the past across Siberia and up the Congo, Jeffrey Tayler was well accustomed to adventure and danger. But even this experienced travel writer was unprepared...
In Putin's Footsteps
Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.
With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter,...
Angry Wind
Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as a rising star among travel writers, Jeffrey Tayler penetrates one of the most isolated, forbidding regions on earth--the Sahel. This lower expanse of the Sahara, which marks the southern limit of Islam’s reach in West and Central Africa,...
Murderers in Mausoleums
Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
A gripping journey through some of the planet’s most remote and challenging terrain and its peoples, in search of why democracy has yet to thrive in lands it seemed so recently ready to overtake Across the largest landmass on earth, in lands once conquered by Genghis Khan and exploited by ruthless...