Journey Into the Mind's Eye | Lesley Blanch
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A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond. Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious traveler first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her lovelorn and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the love of her life, and the Russia he had planted within her, takes her to Siberia and beyond, It travels in time over fifty years, and in space from aristocratic England to sophisticated Paris and the haunting beauty of Moscow, the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the awesome reaches of the Russian steppes.