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A member of the seven-person team that bicycled from Vladivostok to Leningrad shares his recollections of the journey, describing the kindness, food, and faith of the Siberian peasants, the mud villages, and more. 35,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo.
- Sales Rank: #935600 in Books
- Brand: Brand: William Morrow n Co
- Published on: 1992-02
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.75" h x 6.50" w x .75" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 254 pages
Features
- Red and black hardcover with jacket showing bicycle wheel against
- a red background.
From Library Journal
What's it like bicycling in a police state? In 1989, Jenkins found out by joining a team of three Americans and four Russians in the first expedition to cross Siberia by bicycle, via Vladivostok to Leningrad. Jenkins, the Rocky Mountain editor for Backpacker magazine and the field editor for Summit magazine, re-creates his excitement and trepidation over the sheer vastness of the task. The team slogs through an 800-mile swamp and climbs passes over the Ural mountains, enduring dirt roads, mud, and icy rain. While the Siberian journey is adventure reading par excellence, flashbacks celebrating the autonomy afforded kids on bikes are powerful stuff. Recommended for public libraries.
- Elizabeth Skinner, Forsyth Cty. P.L., Winston-Salem, N.C.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Feisty, sometimes brilliant first book about a journey across Siberia by bicycle. Jenkins, an editor for Backpacker and Summit, writes a leaping, impulsive prose that, for all its originality, should be whipped for its barbarisms: ``He lived with his faraway eyes crumpled in a stickwood wheelchair holding him and his medals very still in his backyard with his rosebushes growing tall as trees.'' In 1989, he tells us, he was invited to join three Americans (one a woman) and four Russians (two women) on ``the last great ride'' (Africa, South America, China, Europe, India, and Australia had already been done), 7,500 miles from Vladivostok to Leningrad--a journey to be filmed by Carl Jones, an American documentary filmmaker. Most of the team members were like Jenkins, born bikers obsessed with biking, often knocking off 90 miles a day through heavy weather. After the Americans met their Russian counterparts in Moscow, the team flew to Nekhoda, from where they would cross land twice the breadth of the US and go through seven time zones. At first the team was accompanied by a police car that tried to keep the Americans from observing the deprived lives of nearby Soviet citizens, but the bicyclists soon found themselves feted time and again by villagers following their progress on state-run TV. That Soviets live a hard life, with memories of Stalin hanging heavy, became clear to Jenkins; in fact, the Americans met Russians who had been jailed for five years for ``capitalism'' or for going into business on their own. Three of the fellow Russian bikers were not friendly and, tensions mounting, the team finally broke up on the last leg of its big ride. Mud, cabbages, sub-zero frigidity--altogether a super adventure that landed the team in the Guinness Book of World Records. (Eight pages of color photos; maps--not seen.) -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Review
"Mark Jenkins smuggled a well-crafted literary epic into his account of a Guinness record-setting bicycle adventure."—USA Today "An epic tour of one of earth's most forbidding and legendary regions . . .The prose of Off the Map is as audacious as the journey."—The San Francisco Chronicle "The ornery, observant Jenkins [is] good company on every page."—Newsweek "A great whirring dream of a prose poem."—The Guardian (London) "Jenkins is a master of the fundamental writer’s talent: an ability to see things in new ways, as no one has ever seen them before."—Robert Pirsig, author, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
hard touring
By Adam Pollock
Get past the stardust memories of his childhood, and the offputting ode to an adolescent girl's breeze-brushed nipples, and
"Off the Map" becomes the finest, most insightful tour report this side of Thomas Stevens' classic Around the World on a Bicycle. Jenkins' prose is overwrought at first, obscured by foilshiny darkglittering adjectives. He needs an adventure to wear him down enough to write past his brilliance into truth. He gets there.
A couple months ago, I read Ian "Sandy" Frazer's Travels in Siberia, a fine and lovely book. The telling difference is in the thousand-mile roadless tract between Kamchatka and Lake Baikal. It is made of mud, "balota." Frazier crosses it in a sealed train car, feeling slightly ill. Jenkins and his party ride their bikes through it. He meets people, he talks, he drinks, he rides like the wheel's own bastard child. You can guess whose journey is the more enthralling.
Mark Jenkins does more than ride through the muck, begging for milk. He passes through Siberian lives in the Soviet era like a bee through poisoned pollen, carrying with him the beauty and the rage, the cruelty and the generosity, the unbelievable filth and privation. He hears songs that sustain lives, and hums them back. He partakes and communes, and brings it home.
This is a moving and beautiful book. No one who cares about the depth of experience to be found on a bicycle should pass it by.
The tallish paperback is nice, by the way, and it's on Kindle, too. In either format, it's a good gift, when you've already given Fournel's Need for the Bike.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating Travel Literature
By Michael P. McCullough
I truly enjoyed this book. When I'm not reading fiction I like to read travel books. Obviously the subject matter was fascinating (to me, anyway) - a road bike trip across Siberia - much of which was essentially roadless; but this one was unique in a couple of ways.
First of all it was an unusual shape - the book. Tall narrow pages. Different. But more importantly it was well edited. This book could have been seven hundred pages but it was joyfully succinct. The author didn't feel the need to tell us everything that happened along his four or five month bike ride across Siberia; instead he focuses on certain interesting aspects of the trip and skips the rest. He follows Elmore Leonard's advice: "Leave out the parts people skip."
But the best part was the unique writing style. The author sticks to standard narrative style for the most part, but switches, at times, to interior monologue and even stream of consciousness - but just enough to remain interesting.
A fascinating work of travel literature - highly recommended.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Very Entertaining; Epic with Commentary on the USSR in its twilight.
By Tenchi in DC
Ran across this book when I was looking to take a break from Sci-fi books. Since I am a bicycle commuter, I found the idea of bicycling across the largest country in the world very interesting. Many assumptions I had were shattered as I read this book about traversing the USSR in the late 1980's. This isn't a day by day account of the trip but rather more like a week by week account with some details on the daily struggles. Much of the book is devoted to the author's interactions with the local populace in rural russia. The reader comes away with a solid understanding of the county as well as the difficulties of traversing russia's land ocean.
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