The Tinker Scrolls

Tinker:

“A modern-day field conjuror. One who travels by instinct and necessity, building, mending, or reimagining the machinery of life—mechanical, logistical, or human—using limited tools, limitless wit, and an appetite for movement. A tinker doesn’t just fix. A tinker adapts, translates, and moves on. Not a title, but a temperament.”

Modern-day Tinker:

The old ones wandered the globe over generations. The new ones do it in a lifetime. But the itch? The instinct? Same as ever.

Tinker Ethos:

Live hard, Travel hard, Learn Hard, Build hard. Love harder. 

The FSU Scroll is a reflective, true-to-life account drawn from frontier oil and gas operations across the former Soviet Union during the 1990s and early 2000s. It blends memoir, history and field humor to illuminate how leadership, culture and chaos intertwined east of the Urals.

The ideal reader will appreciate creative nonfiction grounded in real-world experience and may have interest in post-Soviet history, engineering, frontier life, energy sector culture, logistics and the human side of expatriate life.

This is not a technical manual or a conventional travelogue. Readers seeking escapist fiction will not find a fir here. Readers who value authenticity, wit and insight amid adversity will.

Above all, The FSU Scroll provides context to, and makes a clear statement on the ongoing War on Ukraine.