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Sylvain Tesson (born 26 April 1972) is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are The Consolations of the Forest (2011), about a project to live alone in a Siberian cabin for six months and The Art of ...
Sylvain Tesson, né le 26 avril 1972 à Paris, est un écrivain, voyageur et essayiste français. Il est principalement connu pour ses récits de voyage à travers le monde, et est ainsi régulièrement classé dans la catégorie littéraire des écrivains-voyageurs qu’il a contribué à populariser dans le paysage littéraire ...
Sylvain Tesson had built his life around travelling until one day a fall confined him to a hospital bed. He then promised himself that he would walk across France if he recovered. The Parisian author offers an in-depth look at life in a hospital, learning about weakness and the road to recovery.
Sylvain Tesson has 101 books on Goodreads with 40373 ratings. Sylvain Tesson’s most popular book is Dans les forêts de Sibérie.
Dec 7, 2021 · Sylvain Tesson is a French traveler, adventurer, writer and philosopher, born on April 26, 1972 in Paris.
Sylvain Tesson has walked from Russia to India, participated in archaeological digs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and wintered alone in a cabin on a lake in Siberia. One of France’s most celebrated travel writers, he has been awarded the Prix Medicis and the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle.
Sylvain Tesson, born in 1972, has been traveling the world for over twenty years. He is a “écrivain-voyageur,” a traveling writer, that is to say, he bases a substantial part of his writing on personal experiences from the journeys on which he embarks.
Jul 13, 2021 · “In The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet, the French writer Sylvain Tesson chronicles his rapturous journey through Tibet’s Chantang plateau with the wildlife photographer Vincent Munier. Tesson’s words, in a ravishing translation by Frank Wynne, paint pictures as vivid as any photograph.”
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Jul 3, 2014 · 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 Baikal, for six months.
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Sylvain Tesson has walked from Russia to India, participated in archaeological digs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and wintered alone in a cabin on a lake in Siberia. One of France's most celebrated travel writers, he has been awarded the Prix Medicis and the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle.
