Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga

The bestselling and award-winning book about living in Siberia for six months by France’s most brilliant travel writer, now in paperback

Sylvain Tesson, found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia- he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. Noting carefully his impressions of the silence, Sylvain Tesson shares with us an extraordinary experience.