In Siberia (1999)

Travelling across the vast expanse of post-Soviet Siberia by rail and river, Thubron chronicles the psychological and social vacuum left by the collapse of the USSR. Through conversations in third-class sleeper carriages with miners, believers, and ex-convicts, he maps how local communities navigate forgotten gulag settlements and industrial decay. The travelogue delivers a sombre, intensely lyrical portrait of a continent-sized territory adrift between imperial memory and fragile transition.