The Man Who Loved Siberia no-tag Travelling across the wildest of

Travelling across the wildest of landscapes - as far north as Orkney and south as Cornwall - young readers will build Stonehenge with the young Merlin

old friendships conceal violent passions and resentments

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and her leading role in social and cultural activities such as the Friday Club

The Man Who Loved Siberia no-tag Travelling across the wildest ofSiberia, to me, is a fairy tale land. Fritz Drries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers, explored remote islands and crossed treacherous lakes of ice, always with one purpose: to augment man's knowledge of the natural world. Bears, tigers, vipers, bandits, stormy seas, frostbite, ice chasms