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Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron’s books include In Siberia, Shadow of the Silk Road, and the novel Night of Fire. His most recent book is The Amur River: Between Russia and China. (June 2025)

The Haven of Wilderness

The Haven of Wilderness

In a quartet of books about life in the mountains of southern Bulgaria and North Macedonia as they descend into Greece, Kapka Kassabova gives voice to the shepherds, nomads, horse breeders, dog breeders, villagers, and refugees who live there.

Anima: A Wild Pastoral

by Kapka Kassabova

Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

by Kapka Kassabova

To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace

by Kapka Kassabova

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

by Kapka Kassabova

June 12, 2025 issue

Escape from Fortress Crete

Escape from Fortress Crete

Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general in the mountains of Greece during World War II. Was it worth it?

Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation in Crete

by Patrick Leigh Fermor, with a foreword by Roderick Bailey

The Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation

by George Psychoundakis, translated from the Greek and with an introduction by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

by Artemis Cooper

Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

selected and edited by Adam Sisman

More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

selected and edited by Adam Sisman

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March 11, 2021 issue

Reveling in Discomfort

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory

by Mrs. J.F. Bishop (Isabella L. Bird), with an introduction by Dervla Murphy

July 19, 2018 issue

A River Runs Through It

Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires

by Dominic Ziegler

October 26, 2017 issue

Mesmerized by Germany

Roads to Berlin: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany

by Cees Nooteboom, translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson, with photographs by Simone Sassen

December 19, 2013 issue

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