En Siberie, dans le Dorset anglais ou au c?ur des montagnes de Georgie, les lois du destin et les forces de la nature sont plus puissantes que les desirs et les esperances : les heros de ces nouvelles ne devraient jamais l’oublier. Cinq nouvelles, cinq gifles etourdissantes et toniques, cinq invitations a mediter sur l’homme et la nature....

Moscow to Paris in a sidecar: an epic, crazy 2,500 mile road trip following Napoleon’s retreat October 1812, Napoleon enters Moscow. The Russians have set fire to the city, soon it will be reduced to a pile of ash. The Emperor equivocates, decides to turn back....

Il y a deux siècles, des mecs rêvaient d\"autre chose que du haut-débit. Ils étaient prêts à mourir pour voir scintiller les bulbes de Moscou. Tout commence en 2012: Sylvain Tesson......

A meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude. Winner of the Prix Medicis for nonfiction, The Consolations of the Forest is a Thoreau-esque quest to find solace, taken to the extreme....

Sylvain Tesson found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Lake Baikal, for six months. From February to July 2010, he lived in silence, solitude, and cold....