THE THURSDAY BOOK: A tetchy exile in Russia's holy islands; The Journals of a White Sea Wolf Mariusz Wilk, trans. Danusia Stok Harvill, pounds 15.99.(Features)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: October 2, 2003| Author: Thomson, Ian | Copyright information

Byline: Ian Thomson

THE LITERARY travelogue - with elements of history, anthropology, personal experience and quest - is a difficult genre. In the absence of conventional plot, the challenge is to create a forward momentum, something that Bruce Chatwin was notably skilled at doing. In lesser hands, such a book could easily stagnate. Yet The Journals of a White Sea Wolf is a triumph. In mesmeric detail, Mariusz Wilk chronicles the Solovetsky Islands, a remote archipelago ...

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