The author of In Putin’s Footsteps chronicles a deadly trek through the icy Russian region known for gulags and isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tay

In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler traveled some 2,400 miles down the Lena River, from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, re-creating a journ

No guidebook existed for my route; no one had ever done it before", writes Tayler. As the first American to visit many of the places he goes, his reports on a c

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