"Hilarious, introspective, contemplative, professorial . . . the tale of a historical motorcycle tour quite unlike most any you will ever read." Ultimate Motorcycling
Lire Magazine Best Travel Book
Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history's most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you've got Sylvain Tesson's Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines travel, history, comradery, and adventure.
"The narration is wry and marked by a cheerful fatalism. Mr. Tesson is a witty and knowledgeable road companion." The Wall Street Journal
"From beginning to end, the story of Berezina is enthralling, funny, and terrifying. At the same time, it is magnificently written." RTL
"Berezina succeeds brilliantly as a sly commentary onand a challenge to conventional thinking abouttoday's contention between Russia and the EU, and the rutted habits of the popular Western mind." On the Seawall