这是一部插图游记，精彩地捕捉了艺术家和插图画家艾玛·菲克（Emma Fick）从北京到蒙古再到莫斯科的跨西伯利亚铁路史诗般的火车旅行，包括200多幅水彩插图和手写文本，其中包括文化和历史信息以及宝贵的旅行技巧。
2015年5月，艺术家兼插画家艾玛·菲克（Emma Fick）和她的男友（现在的丈夫）赫尔维奥（Helvio）在赫尔辛基的一家二手商店里，在一次穿越波罗的海和斯堪的纳维亚半岛的旅行中发现了一本破旧的《跨西伯利亚手册》。许多来自世界各地的旅行者都曾使用该指南乘坐世界上最长的火车旅行。艾玛和海尔维奥把他们的发现作为一个标志，开始了他们在这条传奇铁路上的冒险。这条铁路自一个世纪前修建以来，吸引了许多旅行者和探险家的想象力和好奇心。
一年半后，他们手里拿着《跨西伯利亚手册》，在北京登上了火车。他们的冒险之旅才刚刚开始。
边境口岸是他们26天难忘的8个城市穿越亚洲到达莫斯科的历史记录。艾玛以生动、形象的语言介绍了这条铁路的简明历史，带你穿过广阔的乡村和繁华的城市中心，穿过充满美味佳肴的开放式食品市场和点缀着成群游牧家庭的雪山荒野。
艾玛详细的观察和丰富的描述，再加上丰富多彩的插图，将这一非凡的发现和冒险之旅——风景、食物、人和文化——带到了生活中。体验在蒙古喝咸奶茶、吃鞋底蛋糕（形状像鞋底的油炸蛋糕，上面堆着牛奶凝乳和硬糖），以及骑骆驼。在俄罗斯，你可以在白雪覆盖的乡间漫步，欣赏白桦林立的奇观，探索贝加尔湖淡水湖的奇观。贝加尔湖是奥穆尔的发源地，是一种无处不在、深受喜爱的鱼类佳肴，你可以去冰上钓鱼，还可以在莫斯科进行自助游。
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Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway
An illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator Emma Fick’s epic train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway—from Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow—including more than 200 watercolor illustrations and handwritten text that includes cultural and historical information as well as invaluable travel tips.
In May 2015, on a trip through the Baltics and Scandinavia, artist and illustrator Emma Fick and her boyfriend (now husband) Helvio discovered a worn copy of the Trans-Siberian Handbook at a secondhand shop in Helsinki. Many travelers from around the globe had used the guide to journey on the longest train ride in the world. Emma and Helvio took their find as a sign to embark on their own adventure on the legendary railway that has captured the imaginations and curiosities of many travelers and explorers since its construction a century ago.
A year and a half later, with Trans-Siberian Handbook in hand, they boarded the train in Beijing. Their odyssey was just beginning.
Border Crossings is the chronicle of their unforgettable 26-day, 8-city journey across Asia to Moscow. Emma offers a concise history of the railway and in vivid, visual language, takes you across a vast landscape of rural villages and bustling urban centers, through open food markets brimming with delicacies and a snowy mountain wilderness dotted with clusters of gers—nomadic homes.
Emma’s detailed observations and lush descriptions, accompanied by detailed colorful illustrations, bring this remarkable journey of discovery and adventure—the landscapes, food, people and cultures—to life. Experience drinking salty milk tea, eating shoe sole cake (fried cakes shaped like shoe soles piled high and topped with milk curds and hard candies), and riding camels in Mongolia. In Russia, wander through a snow-draped countryside filled with stands of birch trees, explore the wonders of freshwater Lake Baikal—the source of omul, a ubiquitous and beloved fish delicacy—go ice fishing, and take a self-guided tour of Moscow.
With its hand-drawn maps, its wealth of illustrations of every aspect of the experience—from sleeping quarters on a train to the highlights of a monastery or the details of a memorable meal, Border Crossings is an invitation to experience new destinations and cultures first-hand—to travel the Trans-Siberian Railway as never before, whether you’re a nomad looking for a new vacation destination, an armchair traveler, or just culturally curious.
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