Istanbul
by Orhan Pamuk | 
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
by Robert Macfarlane | 
Sea Room
by Adam Nicolson | 
Roumeli
by Patrick Leigh Fermor |
Charles Kuralt's America
by Charles Kuralt |
On the Rez
by Ian Frazier | 
The White Rock
by Hugh Thomson | 
Travels with Myself and Another
by Martha Gellhorn | 
This Cold Heaven
by Gretel Ehrlich | 
The Only Street in Paris
by Elaine Sciolino |
Palestinian Walks
by Raja Shehadeh | 
Deep South
by Paul Theroux | 
Homage to Barcelona
by Colm Toibin | 
The Sewing Circles of Herat
by Christina Lamb | 
Midnight in Siberia
by David Greene | 
An Area of Darkness
by V. S. Naipaul | 
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
by Lawrence Durrell | 
No-Man's Lands
by Scott Huler | 
Facing the Wave
by Gretel Ehrlich | 
To Jerusalem and Back
by Saul Bellow |
Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and grew up under the drab, muddy, grey mantle of one of communism's most mindlessly authoritarian regimes. Escaping with her family as soon as possible after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, she lived in Britain, New Zealand, and Argentina, and several other places. But when Bulgaria was formally inducted to the European Union she decided it was time to return to the home she had spent most of her life trying to escape. What she found was a country languishing under the strain of transition. This two-part memoir of Kapka's childhood and return explains life on the other side of the Iron Curtain.