River of No Reprieve（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　”Reading this exciting, engaging book gave me an adrenaline
rush as I followed the author’s perilous adventures on a
custom-built raft traveling 2,400 miles down the Lena River–the
10th-longest river on Earth.” (Spencer Rumsey, Newsday
)”Tayler is, in end, an adventurer–like the Cossack explorers
whose journey he is retracing. He is enthralled by overcoming
danger. The reader comes away with a keen appreciation for this
spirit, and by extrapolation, for how human beings can adapt and
even thrive in the most extreme circumstances.” (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer )”Helps to make all of us mindful that, even
in this day of CNN, many people still exist–or pherhaps persist is
a better word–in states and places far beyond our ken.”
(Christian Science Monitor )

　　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, recreating a journey first made by Cossack forces
more than three hundred years ago. He was searching for primeval
beauty and a respite from the corruption, violence, and
self-destructive urges that typify modern Russian culture. His only
companion on this hellish journey detests all humanity, including
Tayler. Vadim, Tayler’s guide, is a burly Soviet army veteran whose
superb skills Tayler needs to survive. As the two navigate roiling
whitewater in howling storms, they eschew lifejackets because the
frigid water would kill them before they could swim to shore.
Though he has trekked by camel through the Sahara and canoed down
the Congo during the revolt against Mobutu, Tayler has never felt
as threatened as he does on this trip. In River of No Reprieve,
adventure lovers and armchair travelers will encounter a
captivating journey into an expanse of Russia that will not be
forgotten.

　　Jeffrey Tayler is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and
a contributor to Condé Nast Traveler, Harper’s Magazine, and
National Geographic. He has written four books, most recently
“Angry Wind”. An accomplished linguist, he is fluent in Russian,
Arabic, French, and Modern Greek and can get by in Spanish and
Turkish.