Books by Jeffrey Tayler and Complete Book Reviews
Jeffrey Tayler, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-618-15547-7
Forecast:Readers overwhelmed by the many dense texts available on Islamic politics will enjoy this balanced, enlightening memoir.
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Jeffrey Tayler, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (252p) ISBN 978-0-618-33467-4
This engrossing narration of crossing the Sahel—the Saharan borderlands of Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Mali—by tortuous and frequently hair-raising local conveyances finds a barren, wind-scoured region, wracked by hunger, tribal conflict,...
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Jeffrey Tayler, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (230p) ISBN 978-0-618-53909-3
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Reviewed by Tom Bissell
In his fifth book, Tayler returns to the Siberian hinterlands of Russia, the country where he has lived for the past 11 years and of which he wrote in Siberian Dawn
. This time, however, he struggles 2,400 miles
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Jeffrey Tayler, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (306p) ISBN 978-0-618-79991-6
Tayler (Siberian Dawn
) takes readers on an extraordinary adventure across the largest landmass on earth, from Russia through the Caucasus into South Ossetia and Georgia, on to Central Asia and Kazakhstan, and across Xinjiang and Mongolia. Equal...
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Jeffrey Tayler, Author Ruminator Books $27 (301p) ISBN 978-1-886913-26-4
The ideal readers for this book would be World Bank advisers drawing up credit agreements in their five-star Moscow hotel rooms as they dine on German beef. Yet anyone seeking an understanding of post-Soviet Russia that goes beyond the dull CNN...
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Jeffrey Tayler, Author Ruminator Books $27 (261p) ISBN 978-1-886913-44-8
In this Heart of Darkness-revisited tale, Tayler (Siberian Dawn) sets out to retrace the steps of British explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who in the 1870s, accompanied by a crew of hundreds of Africans and three Europeans, sailed the entire length of
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Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-16323-3
Khrushcheva (The Lost Khrushchev), Russian-born professor of international affairs at the New School, and Tayler (Siberian Dawn), a Moscow-based American journalist married to a Russian, recount a cross-country journey they undertook in 2017 “to see
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