Obsessed with a quest he never fully understands, Daniel Kalder boldly goes where no man has gone before. In the bleak industrial badlands of Udmurtia, he looks for Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47, and accidentally becomes a TV star. This book presents Kalder's travels in the bizarre and [...]
Documents Daniel Kalder's travels in the bizarre and mysterious worlds of Russia's ethnic republics.
When Daniel Kalder, acclaimed author of Lost Cosmonaut, descended into the sewers of Moscow in pursuit of the mythical lost city of tramps, he didn't realise that he was embarking on a bizarre, year-long odyssey that would lead him thousands of miles across Russia to the Arctic Circle via the heart [...]