Few weeks traveling at the easternmost end of Siberia, on Kamchatka Peninsula. Even if the vacation is in a well-organized group with an experienced guide, nature, weather and conditions in Russia after the end of the communist period are a challenge. It is not yet a package vacation where good hotel, safe transport and certainly not the sight of bears or volcanic peaks can be guaranteed in advance. The author therefore compares the adventurous undertaking with the conditions that German prisoners of war had to endure involuntarily in Russia after World War II. Kamchatka with its nature, its people, its overwhelming beauty, but also its economic and socio-political problems is brought close to the reader in a very personal way.
Authors: Helga Merkelbach, Richard Seidl (photos)
Publisher: Books on Demand
ISBN: 978-3-8482-2748-8
Edition: 1st edition