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Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | 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
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | 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
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Set in the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe and a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, plants and place Set in the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe an ...Show more
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova
50.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | 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
24.99 NZD
Category: 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
Love in the Land of Midas by Kapka Kassabova
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Veronique Loublier decides to spend some time in Thessaloniki, trying to understand what her father was doing in Greece when he died. She begins to pick up the threads of the mysterious story of her grandfather, Pascal, who disappeared during the Greek Junta of 1967. Pascal's story has haunted Veronique ...Show more
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War & Peace by Kapka Kassabova
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
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
To the Lake: A Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
24.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
The celebrated author of Border explores a mysterious, ancient, and little-understood corner of EuropeLake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two ancient 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 ...Show more
Twelve Minutes of Love - A Tango Story by Kapka Kassabova
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
To the uninitiated, tango is just a dance, albeit a dance with an exotic and sensuous allure. To the true tanguero, it is something akin to a religion, attracting the lost, the lonely, and the fanatical with its formal rituals, its sense of belonging, and its intense emotions. Kapka Kassabova first set ...Show more
Villa Pacifica by Kapka Kassabova
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A couple arrive in a dead-end coastal village somewhere in South America. The only place to stay is Villa Pacifica, part hotel and part animal sanctuary run by eccentric ex-pats. Travel guide-writer Ute and her husband Jerry are joined by an assortment of travellers: in-your-face American Max; sporty fl ...Show more
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