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The big red train ride

by Eric Newby

A travelogue documenting an eight-day journey across the Soviet Union on the Trans-Siberian Railway. The account details the bureaucratic challenges and daily realities of life encountered during the nearly 6,000-mile trip from Moscow to the Pacific coast.

Accession 20309 ISBN 0140052437 Publisher Penguin
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