Joe Luc Barnes Audiobooks

Farewell to Russia: twelve hours where travel writing meets a long historical memory

1 audiobook reviewed

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11 listener ratings

Who is Joe Luc Barnes?

A farewell carries everything that came before it. Joe Luc Barnes appears on our shelves with Farewell to Russia, a title the catalogue places between classics and heritage on one side and travel writing on the other, which is an unusual pair of neighbours and a telling one.

Books that sit in that overlap tend to be journeys with something underneath the route: places met in the present but understood through what happened there. Over twelve hours the form has room to work properly, moving between landscape and history without hurrying either. The catalogue offers the work and nothing more, which is a fair enough introduction on its own terms.

Joe Luc Barnes in audiobooks

Twelve hours and a quarter of material sits in the hands of Matt Addis. The early ratings are enthusiastic but few in number, so the picture is promising rather than proven.

Give it time rather than sampling it. A book built on accumulation rewards the listener who stays through the slower stretches, and this one is long enough to establish a rhythm of its own before it asks anything. Anyone who likes travel writing with history in its bones will recognise the appeal early. See what is currently on the shelf below.