Wall to Wall
From Beijing to Berlin by Rail
From the acclaimed author of Nothing to Declare—a powerful travel memoir chronicling the author’s 1986 trip through China, Russia, and Eastern Europe and her search for roots, family, and her ancestral home in Ukraine.
Traveling across China and Mongolia to Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express and finally on to Berlin, Morris views the changing landscapes of nations and history. She encounters and converses with a colorful assortment of people from party-liners to dissidents, from ordinary men and women to the Moscow elite.
Her journey, however, occurs against the backdrop of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. On the train and in Russia, Morris hears terrifying, contradictory reports of the condition of the region so near her intended destination outside of Kiev. In midst…