Career
Since 1990 he has worked for Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper. He also used to work as teacher, train loader, scale operator at pigs purchase point, head of a distribution company, a part of underground structure of Solidarity and shopkeeper. He travelled by bike through Central Asia, the Gobi Desert and China, and sailed through Lake Baikal in a canoe.
In winter 2007 he made a lonely car journey from Moscow to Vladivostok which was the background of his first book White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia.
In 2001 he made a solitary hitchhike across Russia – from Magadan to Yakutsk. Reports describing encountered people"s everyday lives were published in Gazeta Wyborcza during the journey and later gathered and released in the book Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia"s Haunted Hinterland.
He is a two-time laureate of Polish prize for the best journalists - Grand Press (in 1999 and 2003).