{"product_id":"images-from-a-lost-world","title":"Images from a Lost World","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a child, growing up in South-Eastern Norway, the vast country to the east with which we shared a short border in the far north, held an enormous fascination to me. All the more enticing because the border was closed to us. Nor could Russian people visit Norway. I soaked up everything I heard about it—the enormous flat plains, their melodic and alien songs, their literature and their colourful churches with a whiff of the Orient. But because of the Iron Curtain we could not go there. A few people had been and returned home with stories of being watched by secret police and forbidden to walk about freely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill, I wanted to see it, and one day, in a much-changed world, I did. This then is the story of my second visit to this fabled country—a dreamlike journey on the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Beijing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"aSys Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":49669259657520,"sku":"9781913438883","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/images-from-a-lost-world","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}