Philip Marsden

The Spirit-Wrestlers (Text Only) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Moscow, a man is looking at a map of the Caucasus. He is Doukhobor, a 'spirit-wrestler', member of a group of radical Russian sectarians. "Here," he says. "I was born here. On the edge of the world."

So begins Philip Marsden's journey into a strange and ambiguous world - a world where nothing is quite as solid as belief, where miracles area a part of everyday life, and where the Russian steppe gives way to the hostile Caucasian scarp.

"A fascinating, horrifying and inspiring journey - praise seems scant reward for his efforts. The man deserves a medal. "
HARRY RICHIE, Mail on Sunday

"So otherworld, so strange and so fabulous are the characters who people 'The Spirit-Wrestler' that the reader might be forgiven for imagining he had dipped by mistake into some ancient book of fairy tales. "
TERESA WAUGH, Literary Review

"Having turned the last page of Philip Marsden's book. I sincerely regretted that it was my first encounter with this excellent travel writer. 'The Spirit-Wrestlers' charmed me with its genuine spirituality - Marsden himself deserves to be called a spirit-wrestler. "
VITALI VITALIEV, Daily Telegraph

"A mesmerising account"
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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007397112
• Artikelnr.: 37989423

Autorenporträt

Philip Marsden is the author of A Far Country: Travels in Ethiopia, The Crossing Place: Among the Armenians (which won the Somerset Maugham Award) and The Bronski House, and is the editor of The Spectator Book of Travel Writing.