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Where Nights Are Longest

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Also known as: “Among the Russians”

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title, Where Nights Are Longest), chronicles a 10,000-mile (16,000-km) journey by car across what was then the Soviet Union; it was praised for its richly textured descriptions of Russian life. The Lost Heart of Asia (1994), In Siberia (1999), and Shadow of the Silk Road (2006)…
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