The Woman Who Walked to Russia: A Writer's Search for a Lost Legend

by Cassandra Pybus

Book Overview

From the moment Cassandra Pybus first heard about Lillian Alling's trek across North America, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. This is how it went: Desperate with homesickness, Lillian Alling, a recent immigrant to the United States from the Soviet Union, haunted the New York Public Library, studying the atlas to establish the most direct route home to her native Russia. Her English was poor but she understood the hieroglyphics of cartography...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568582900
• ISBN13: 9781568582900
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

an entertaining read

I really enjoyed this book, reading it in just over a day. It is true what the other reviewers say about the actual content being more about the author than the supposed subject, but I found it to be a very accessible history lesson in regards to immigration, and the gold rush in British Colombia, as well as a thorough description of the stunning landscape. It is more a travelog I found. I am amazed someone has such an intense curiosity to unravel a story as to go through all she had to (and that there was a grant to fund it).