Off The Map

A stunning account of the first coast-to-coast crossing of Siberia by bicycle-a 5-month, 7,500-mile feat that put Jenkins in the Guinness Book of World Records With this brilliant account of his journey-at once edge-of-your-seat exciting and literary-Mark Jenkins established himself as the master of adventure/travel writing. In 1989 he and six companions-two Americans and four Russians-set out on an arduous, first-ever crossing of Siberia by bike, cycling across rutted dirt roads, swamps, the Ural Mountains, and through Moscow and Leningrad.