Search Results for ‘Balkans’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 13 matches found

Danube

There is something about the art of travel writing that seems to bring out the very best in the most skilful practitioners. The late Bruce Chatwin produced some of his most incandescent prose in his...

New Europe

In "New Europe" Michael Palin sets off to discover the half of Europe that until recently has been largely out of bounds. Shown in BBC TV documentaries, the famed travel writer and comedian explores...

The Balkans 1804-1999

The Way of the World

Part candid description of a road journey, part a meditation on travel, this is the tale of a life-enhancing journey taken in the 1950s from Geneva to the Khyber Pass on very little money. When Nicolas...

Bad Lands

Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet, travelled through some of the world’s most repressive and dangerous regimes. Wheeler says, “When Mr Bush produced his ‘Axis of Evil’ list, my first thought was...

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)

It's the early 1990s and three young people, working for the UN and Red Cross in Cambodia, become friends in the heady atmosphere of the country's first democratic elections. All of them have been attracted...

The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania

Travelling by bus, on foot, by mule and horse, staying with Albanians in their houses and crumbling Stalinist tower blocks, Robert Carver meets Vlach shepherds and village intellectuals, ex-Communist...

Croatia: A Nation Forged in War

As Croatia's past and present defy simple categorization, Marcus Tanner's book provides a full and impartial account of its rise, fall, and rebirth from its medieval origins to today's tentative peace...

Kosovo: A Short History

"Brilliantly researched and argued ¿ A magisterial work of history ... an immensely valuable contribution to our understanding and knowledge of a contemporary crisis ¿ this is [also] a profound and...

The Serbs

Tim Judah spent five reporting from Yugoslavia. In this book, written before the war in Kosovo, he analyses the war in Yugoslavia and the history of the Serbian people.
"Readable and stimulating ¿ Judah...

When the Alps Cast their Spell

In “When the Alps Cast Their Spell” the mountaineer and writer Trevor Braham illustrates aspects of the character and achievements of some of the early Victorian climbers, and their response to the...

Croatia - Through Writer's Eyes

“Croatia - Through Writers’ Eyes” contains work from some of the greatest travel writers of our time, even finding space to hold some of literary great Evelyn Waugh’s musings on this amazing country...

Talk of the Devil