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Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-five years after she left, Kassabova returns to Bulgaria to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece in an immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and ex ...Show more
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach ...Show more
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: near fine
In the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe, where the surrounding forests and mountains are a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Kapka Kassabova finds a story with vast resonance for us all. Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, ...Show more
Geography for the Lost by Kapka Kassabova
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost and disoriented: in a place, in the past, in fear, ...Show more
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War & Peace by Kapka Kassabova
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region's past, and the secret of its enduring allure. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmothe ...Show more
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