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TRAVEL TALES IBD

MICHAEL BREIN
MICHAEL BREIN
10 / 2022
9798215776186
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Sinopsis

Travel Tales: Russia & The USSRIs a collection of travel stories ofáone of the travel worldâÇÖs most, shall we say, duplicitous destinations &mdash, a bit mysterious, somewhat alluring, yet still demanding a modicum of caution. Russia, formerly the Soviet Union, aka the USSR, is a place you can never quite get comfortable with. Oh, for sure, things improved much when the Soviet Union as such collapsed and morphed into what is now a more modern-day Russia, or more formerly "The Russian Federation."áRussia, for sure, abounds with history and untold artistic treasures and has modernized considerably bringing itself into the more modern-day 21st century. Maybe not quite among the worldâÇÖs most eagerly sought out destinations on Earth to visit, like, say, the Mediterranean, the pyramids of Egypt, the shopping and culinary meccas ofá Western Europe, or the wilds of Africa, Russia remains, however, in the minds of armchair travelers and adventurers alikeálooking to travel one day to Russia, say, to St. Petersburg or Moscow, or perhaps, even take a river journey between these two cities, or take a train trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad.áRussia, though lacking in the relatively innocuous and more mellow travel like, say, to Europe,á certainly now has suddenly become one of the more challenging countries to visit. Given the current world political arena, travel to Russia from the West for the foreseeable future will virtually cease to nil.áShall we say that this book on travel to Russia during the Cold War, through its return to the world stage, and now to its presence in the world as a pariah nation &mdash, now in the negative news media on a daily basis &mdash, is certainly not recommended as a destination for the unknown foreseeable future.áThis book, then, is more attuned to the armchair adventurer and those travelers who are now more curious than anything else and now more than ever before &mdash, about what travel to Russia has been like in the recent past, and now that Russia is largely off the plate for travel at least for the foreseeable future.áNow is the time to sit back and contemplate more about what travel to Russia was likeáin the recent past, now that it is not likely to return any time soon as a goal for future travel adventures.áSo, given our True Travel Tales destinations sub-series, what was travel to the old USSR and Russia like, at least at the beginning of the more modern-day twenty-first century and slightly beyond?áIt is one of our purposes of theáTrue Travel Talesáseries to provideáa cross-section of travel life in the worldâÇÖs most popular and alluring places, that along with the good comes sometimes a portion of the bad as well.áIn theáTrue Travel Talesáseries, we aim to pull no punches. YouâÇÖll see some of the good and best sides of Russia as it reached the more modern era, and in so doing, youâÇÖll also sample some of the more discomforting or disquieting darker aspects as well that sadly were also part of the cycle of travel life in such a diverse and exotic region as the USSR and our token look of travel to Russia in its greater glory in the more modern day.

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15,54€