Balkan transhumance: in her fourth book on life in the Balkans, Kassabova lives and travels with the Karakachan, a small group of Greek-speaking nomadic pastoralists in the Pirin mountains.
A study of the way in which Vesuvius and the excavations in the Bay of Naples in 1738 and afterwards became a potent political and emotional vehicle for artists, intellectuals, Grand Tourist... read more
A witness to the Beslan massacre, the former Moscow correspondent sought to ease his soul and deepen his understanding of the roots of violence by taking a 1000-mile walk along the political... read more
The fragmented recollections of a handful of survivors of the earthquake that struck the northern Friuli in 1976. Their tiny village high in the Julian Alps, beneath the immense karstic mass... read more
The Great Game has not changed though the players have: Keay looks at the history of this contested and remote area and at those that have roamed its wildernesses.
Two men go walking in the Dolomites, but not together; one falls to his death, the other reports the body. Is it coincidence that they knew each other in earlier years, and that one had betr... read more
The first two of Pearson's graphic novels reissued in one volume. For anyone who has missed her, Hilda is a valiant young Scandinavian girl with blue hair and a predilection for trolls. Nort... read more