STRANGE TELESCOPES
When Daniel Kalder, acclaimed author of one of the most unusual and
feted travel debuts of the twenty-first century, 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 of Asia. Now he has returned, mad- eyed and
bearded, to tell the tale.
After exploring the depths of Moscow’s ‘Underground Planet’, Kalder
descends yet further to a Ukrainian vision of hell, chasing down demons
and exorcists in the dubious afterglow of the Orange Revolution, before
ascending to meet Vissarion Christ, one-time traffic cop, now messiah to
thousands of followers calmly awaiting the apocalypse at the foot of his
holy mountain in Siberia. Finally, in the long polar night at the edge of the
world Kalder enters the only wooden skyscraper on the planet and
encounters a man with a bizarre secret that may explain everything…
Salvation and damnation, humour and pathos collide as Daniel Kalder
expertly guides us through a fascinating collection of alternative realities,
rebels and opportunists, further expanding the possibilities of the travel
memoir with this unique account of modern day quest that reveals the
astonishing lengths people will go to when they view the world through a
strange telescope.
When Daniel Kalder, acclaimed author of one of the most unusual and
feted travel debuts of the twenty-first century, 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 of Asia. Now he has returned, mad- eyed and
bearded, to tell the tale.
After exploring the depths of Moscow’s ‘Underground Planet’, Kalder
descends yet further to a Ukrainian vision of hell, chasing down demons
and exorcists in the dubious afterglow of the Orange Revolution, before
ascending to meet Vissarion Christ, one-time traffic cop, now messiah to
thousands of followers calmly awaiting the apocalypse at the foot of his
holy mountain in Siberia. Finally, in the long polar night at the edge of the
world Kalder enters the only wooden skyscraper on the planet and
encounters a man with a bizarre secret that may explain everything…
Salvation and damnation, humour and pathos collide as Daniel Kalder
expertly guides us through a fascinating collection of alternative realities,
rebels and opportunists, further expanding the possibilities of the travel
memoir with this unique account of modern day quest that reveals the
astonishing lengths people will go to when they view the world through a
strange telescope.
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