Driving the Trans-Siberian: The Ultimate Road Trip Across Russia

by The Raven Brothers, Simon Raven, Chris Raven

Overview

Ever had the desire to jump in your car and keep driving? Well, that is precisely what The Raven Brothers decided to do whilst stacking boxes of frozen oven chips in a -30 degrees freezer. With a squeaky foot pump and an SAS survival guide, the travel writing duo fired up their rusty Ford Sierra and headed east. After clocking up over 12,000 kilometres, quite literally living in the car, they miraculously arrived in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan. What the brothers had in fact done was to drive Russia's new Trans-Siberian Highway, a staggering eight years before the road was completed. With only very limited skills of wilderness survival and, virtually zero knowledge of the internal combustion engine, Simon and Chris skip over ten time zones in the beat up petrol engine saloon they used for work. Driving through endless rivers and canyons in a bid to cross the notorious Zilov Gap in darkest Siberia, the trusty heroes capture the true spirit of overland travel during a life-altering journey into one of the world's last frontiers. Along the way they rub shoulders with Chechen criminals, escape highway robbery, trade banana flavoured condoms with Russian cops, meet an eccentric cast of characters at truck stops in darkest Siberia, endure torturous road conditions and enter into a race to the finish with the Germans. Surviving the journey by the skin of their teeth, the brothers are forced to confront their worst fears in a toe-curling comedy of extreme road trip adventure. Priding themselves on going it alone, The Raven Brothers have been noted by Lonely Planet for their talent to portray an "accurate view of what to expect".

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160974804
Publisher:	Samosir Books
Publication date:	03/22/2022
Series:	The Linger Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	214 KB

About the Author

The Raven Brothers were born in the United Kingdom. The first published work by the authors, Living the Linger, tells the story of lost love and a search for the truth during a road trip from Seattle to Los Angeles through backcountry USA. The publication of Driving the Trans- Siberian a year later, established the brothers as travel writers following a life-altering drive from the UK to Vladivostok in a rusty Ford Sierra. Noted by Lonely Planet for their talent to portray an “accurate view of what to expect”, Driving the Trans-Siberian spurred a life on the road. Carnival Express was the concluding title in the Linger Series trilogy, and follows two struggling writers on a quest to traverse the Trans-oceanic highway, from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast of South America. A period of photojournalism, documenting new and off the beaten track destinations, tribal India, China’s Deep South and Crimea, led to the release of Black Sea Circuit. Seizing a narrow window of opportunity to cross the notorious Caucasus frontier, the book explores great legends from Jason and the Argonauts to a tribe of fierce female warriors known as the Amazons. Hike, Drive, Stayin’ Alive! the duo’s fifth book, is the first in a collection of ten candid stories of adventure by The Raven Brothers.