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Lost Cosmonaut

Lost Cosmonaut

by Daniel Kalder (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2006

    $3.28

  • Used

    Paperback 2007

    $3.28
Synopsis

"Lost Cosmonaut" documents Daniel Kalder's travels in the bizarre and mysterious worlds of Russia's ethnic republics. Obsessed with a quest he never fully understands, Kalder boldly goes where no man has gone before: in the deserts of Kalmykia, he stumbles upon a city dedicated to chess and a forgotten tribe of Mongols; in Mari El, home to Europe's last pagan nation, he meets the Chief Druid and participates in an ancient rite; while in the bleak industrial badlands of Udmurtia, Kalder looks for Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47, and accidentally becomes a TV star. Profane yet wise, utterly honest and yet full of lies, "Lost Cosmonaut" is an eye-opening, blackly comic tour of the most alien planet in our cosmos: Earth.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 02 Feb 2006
ISBN 10: 0571227805
ISBN 13: 9780571227808
Book Overview: Lost Cosmonaut documents the incredible travels of Daniel Kalder, in a book which is an eye-opening, blackly comic tour of the most alien planet in our cosmos: Earth.

Media Reviews
Kalder has written a brilliantly funny travel book that questions the essence of exploration and the nature of tourism in an age when there's nowhere new to go. -- Esquire (UK)
Author Bio
Daniel Kalder was born in Dunfermline and lives in Moscow. Lost Cosmonaut is his first book.