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La partition métallique que jouent les roues sur les rails me réveille. Il est cinq heures...

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Ta-ta... ta-ta, ta-ta... ta- ta, ta-ta... ta-ta. 

La partition métallique que jouent les roues du Transsibérien sur les rails me réveille. Il est cinq heures du matin. Le long serpent grinçant se fraie un chemin à travers la Russie européenne. L’Oural est déjà passé.

Comme la longue plaine de Sibérie et les steppes jaunies par le soleil de Mongolie. Le ciel hésite encore entre le violet et le bleu marine. Les premiers rayons de soleil allument petit à petit les jaunes, orange, rouges des millions de bouleaux et de pins qui bordent la voie perdue dans le désert vert. 

Patrick Vallélian

by Patrick Vallélian

Historian and geographer by training, Patrick Vallélian is a Swiss writer, senior reporter, and media executive. Winner of several journalism awards, he has been a war journalist. He covered, among others, the Egyptian revolution and the civil war in Syria, which he discussed in Attentat Express (Ed. Seuil). In 2014, he founded Sept, a publishing house for non-fiction literature and slow journalism, which publishes, among others, Sept mook, the first magazine-book in Switzerland, and the website sept.info.
Aldo Ellena

by Aldo Ellena

Aldo Ellena est né en 1966 et vit en Singine. Après avoir suivi une formation de photographe à l'Ecole d'arts appliqués de Vevey, il a poursuivi sa carrière dans le photojournalisme, son domaine de prédilection.

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