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Books narrated by Sylvain Tesson

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  • The Consolations of the Forest

    Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga

    Translated by Linda Coverdale ...
    A journalist embarks on the adventure of a lifetime—living in a remote cabin in Siberia—in this Thoreau-esque meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude.“…wry, exuberant, and a perfect balm for anyone who dreams of running away to the middle of nowhere.”—San Francisco ChronicleNo stranger to inhospitable places, journalist Sylvain Tesson exiles himself ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Berezina

    On Three Wheels from Moscow to Paris Chasing Napoleon's Epic Fail

    Translated by Katherine Gregor ...
    "Hilarious, introspective, contemplative, professorial . . . the tale of a historical motorcycle tour quite unlike most any you will ever read." — Ultimate MotorcyclingLire Magazine Best Travel BookTake four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history's most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD

  • The Art of Patience

    Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet

    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    A journey in search of one of the most elusive creatures on the planetAdventurer Sylvain Tesson has led a restless life, riding across Central Asia on horseback, freeclimbing the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, and traversing the Himalayas by foot. But while recovering from an accident that left him in a coma, and nursing his wounds from a lost love, he found himself domesticated, his lust for life ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • White

    Translated by Christine Gutman ...
    When Sylvain Tesson left the colourful yellow houses of the French Riviera for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly awaited him. The trek would turn into an extraordinary adventure.Over the course of four years they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    White

    Narrated by Martyn Swain ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 22 min

    When Sylvain Tesson left the colorful yellow houses of the French Riveria for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend Daniel du Lac, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly would await him. Over the course of four years, from 2018 to 2021, they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, entering into a ... Read more

    $23.40 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Berezina

    From Moscow to Paris Following Napoleon’s Epic Fail

    Narrated by Brian Holsopple ...
    Series series Europa Compass

    Unabridged

    4 hours 38 min

    Lire Magazine Best Travel BookTake four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history’s most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you’ve got Sylvain Tesson’s Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines travel, history, comradery, and adventure.The retreat of Napoleon’s ... Read more

    $22.74 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Art of Patience

    Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet

    Narrated by David Pittu ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 12 min

    A journey in search of one of the most elusive creatures on the planetAdventurer Sylvain Tesson has led a restless life, riding across Central Asia on horseback, freeclimbing the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, and traversing the Himalayas by foot. But while recovering from an accident that left him in a coma, and nursing his wounds from a lost love, he found himself domesticated, his lust for life ... Read more

    $18.00 CAD

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    An ant to the starsor stars to the ant—which ismore irrelevant?Weekend Jet Skiers—rude to call them idiots,yes, but facts are facts.Clamor of seabirdsas the sun falls—I look upand ten years have passed."—from "Dawn Notebook"Such is the expansive terrain of Seven Notebooks: the world as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Written in ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Road to Babadag

    Travels in the Other Europe

    Translated by Michael Kandel ...
    Journey through Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, and other places neglected by tourists, with "an accomplished stylist with an eye for telling detail" (Irvine Welsh).Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. By car, train, bus, and ferry, he goes from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine—to small towns and villages with strangely ... Read more

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  • The Best Travel Writing 2011

    True Stories from Around the World

    Series series Best Travel Writing
    The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. ... Read more

    $13.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time and Materials

    Poems 1997-2005

    by Robert Hass ...
    The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

    New Collected Poems

    Translated by Robin Fulton ...
    The collected poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Transtromer, available in this comprehensive edition.In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the worldas the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has now attained a prominence ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD