Accustomed to pointing out the absurdities of everyday life, humorists, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, are uniquely qualified to recognize these absurdities in other places. Frazier is no exception. Hailed by the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle as a masterpiece, Travels in Siberia is both laugh-out-loud hilarious and thoughtfully serious (as evidenced by 40 pages of endnotes and a bibliography). Despite the hazards Frazier faces, his unyielding curiosity and infectious sense of wonder never wane. His "endlessly fascinating tale" (NY Times Book Review) draws on history, politics, cultural studies, geography, memoir, and evocative, first-person descriptions to produce a vibrant and gripping portrait of this remote region, whose images will "linger long after you stop shivering" (Boston Globe). This is an excerpt from a review published in Bookmarks magazine.