Vetokhin, Yurii Aleksandrovich

[SIGNED] Inclined to Escape

[San Diego]: Author's publ. [1983]. Morton, Jenny (illustrator); Vetokhin, Yurii. Second edition. Original publisher's wrappers. Item #407

Book measures: 23 x 15 cm. 544 pages: illustrations. Text in Russian. Signed by the author on the endpaper. Age-stained, foxed, worn copy.

This book describes several unsuccessful attempts by the author to escape from the USSR in the 1960s and 1970s, subsequent captivity in prisons and specialized psychiatric hospitals, and a happy rescue on an Indonesian island after jumping from a ship's porthole.

Yurii Aleksandrovich Vetokhin - a long-distance navigator, cybernetics engineer, and a Soviet dissident.

Price: $250.00