In Europe
by Geert Mak | 
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz | 
South with Endurance
by Frank Hurley |
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
by Peter Hopkirk | 
The Fourth Part of the World
by Toby Lester | 
Amsterdam
by Russell Shorto | 
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
by Jan Morris | 
Pax Britannica
by Jan Morris | 
The Discovery of France
by Graham Robb | 
Venice
by Thomas F. Madden | 
Going Back to Bisbee
by Richard Shelton |
Goodnight, Mister Lenin
by Tiziano Terzani | 
Korea
by Daniel Tudor | 
The Big Roads
by Earl Swift |
Seven Ages of Paris
by Alistair Horne | 
The Road from the Past
by Ina Caro | 
A Voyage Long and Strange
by Tony Horwitz |
The Conquest of the Incas
by John Hemming | 
The Fatal Impact
by Alan Moorehead | 
Black Sea
by Neal Ascherson |
Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centureies, Ukraine was split between warring neighbors: Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Austrians, and Tatars. Again and again, borderland turned into battlefield: during the Cossack risings of the seventeenth century, Russia's wars with Sweden in the eighteenth, the Civil War of 1918-1920, and under Nazi occupation. Ukraine finally won independence in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Bigger than France and a populous as Britain, it has the potential to become one of the most powerful states in Europe.In this finely written and penetrating book, Anna Reid combines research and her own experiences to chart Ukraine's tragic past. Talking to peasants and politicians, rabbis and racketeers, dissidents and paramilitaries, survivors of Stalin's famine and of Nazi labor camps, she reveals the layers of myth and propaganda that wrap this divided land. From the Polish churches of Lviv to the coal mines of the Russian-speaking Donbass, from the Galician shtetlech to the Tatar shantytowns of Crimea, the book explores Ukraine's struggle to build itself a national identity, and identity that faces up to a bloody past, and embraces all the peoples within its borders.