In `Silverland`, award-winning travel writer Dervla Murphy’s intrepid midwinter journey takes her from Moscow to the Russian Far East. Travelling by slow train, Murphy journeys through the world’s most desolate and beautiful mountain ranges to a remote land of lynx and elks, indigenous tribes and shamans, reindeer broth and taigaberry pie. While her less fortunate encounters included a bear and armed robbers, she also experiences great hospitality from the local people along her route who openly share fascinating tales of their own difficult life stories in this unrelenting landscape over a samovar of sweet tea.