{"product_id":"2026200015667-secondhand-journey-into-russia","title":"Journey Into Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the height of the Cold War, a lone traveller ventured deep into the vast and enigmatic Soviet Union, and what he discovered would challenge every Western assumption about the Russian soul. Journey Into Russia is Laurens van der Post's landmark work of travel writing, chronicling his extraordinary odyssey across the USSR — from the grand boulevards of Moscow and Leningrad to the remote steppes and ancient cities of Central Asia — in search of the human spirit beneath the Iron Curtain. Written with the eye of a poet and the instincts of a seasoned explorer, the narrative captures the paradoxes of a nation simultaneously proud and oppressed, ancient and brutally modern, austere and achingly beautiful.\n\nVan der Post brings to this account the same rare gift he applied to his celebrated writings on Africa: an almost mystical attentiveness to landscape, myth, and the unconscious currents of a people's identity. He argues, with quiet urgency, that Russia cannot be understood through politics alone — that its true nature is written in its art, its Orthodox spirituality, its folk memory, and its boundless, melancholy geography. A profound meditation on otherness, Journey Into Russia leaves the reader wondering whether the gulf between East and West is one of ideology, or something far older and stranger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203258556635,"sku":"2026200015667-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/748c61bb-a27c-4a32-9412-13f672c5b8bf.png?v=1788146633","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015667-secondhand-journey-into-russia","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}