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A Journey to Nowhere: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
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Description for A Journey to Nowhere: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland
Paperback. A remarkable combination of memoir, history and travel. Translator(s): Cameron, Professor Euan. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUC; HBJD; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991. It is now a nowhere land of wide skies and forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles and ex-KGB prisons. For years Jean-Paul Kauffmann has been irresistibly drawn to this buffer between the Germanic and Slav worlds. His digressive travels at the wheel of a Skoda become an investigation ... Read more
Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991. It is now a nowhere land of wide skies and forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles and ex-KGB prisons. For years Jean-Paul Kauffmann has been irresistibly drawn to this buffer between the Germanic and Slav worlds. His digressive travels at the wheel of a Skoda become an investigation ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
187g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782062424
SKU
V9781782062424
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Ref
99-10
About Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Jean-Paul Kauffmann is the author of The Dark Room at Longwood (1999), an exploration of Napoleon's exile on St Helena, Desolation Island (2001) and Wrestling with the Angel (2003). He was a journalist until 1985, when he was kidnapped in Beirut and only released three years later. Euan Cameron's translations include works by Julien Green, Simone de Beauvoir ... Read more
Reviews for A Journey to Nowhere: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland
'A seductively exciting historical exploration of a country that no longer exists ... Kauffmann is the ideal literary detective' Irish Times.
Irish Times
'A triumph ... superbly translated by Euan Cameron, provides a vivid amalgam of opinion, history and travelogue; I was absorbed from start to finish' Financial Times.
Financial Times
'Curiously engaging and even tantalising ... Read more
Irish Times
'A triumph ... superbly translated by Euan Cameron, provides a vivid amalgam of opinion, history and travelogue; I was absorbed from start to finish' Financial Times.
Financial Times
'Curiously engaging and even tantalising ... Read more