The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga (Hardcover) by Sylvain Tesson, Linda Coverdale

from PDCRead

Tesson has a desire for freedom and solitude, and decides on a whim to take himself off to the shore of Lake Baikal, to stay in a 3 metre square log cabin, a six day hike from the nearest village. From February to July of that year he inhabits that small cabin, built many years previously by geol...

from whitreidtan

In the midst of a harried and chaotic life, I can only dream of quiet space alone, away from people, completely sunk in nature, with nothing but time unspooling before me. What bliss this seems to me! Sylvain Tesson found just exactly this, choosing his own hermitage, for six months and recorded ...

from Beamis12

Living for six months. alone in an isolated cabin in the Siberian Taiga, not sure of the location or the intense cold but living and being alone sounds awfully good at times. The author arrives in February and stays until the end of July, so he deals with the intense cold first, but he has brough...

from Steve38

With the aid of a dictionary my basic/intermediate level French allowed me to read this record of French journalist Sylvain (what an appropriate name) Tesson's 6 month stay in a remote log cabin on the shore of Lake Baikal in Siberia. An avid traveller he decided to stay in one place in his own c...

from mkboylan

Tesson is a French travel writer (altho much more than that) and this is the first one of his works to be translated into English. I hope the rest of them will be soon as I would enjoy reading more. Tesson writes about spending six months alone in a cabin in Siberia (although he does occasionally...