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A Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova
$27.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club, but beyond the cliches about undrinkable plonk, cheap property, and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy outskirts of Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under Commu ...Show more
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | 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
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War & Peace by Kapka Kassabova
$34.99 AUD
Category: 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
To the Lake: A Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After a decade-long love affair with the dance, Kapka uses her personal story to open up the hidden world of tango, with its aficionados and desperados, its endless practice and its fleeting passions
Twelve Minutes of Love - A Tango Story by Kapka Kassabova
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As Ute and her husband Jerry travel to a remote area on the west coast of South America, they decide to visit a recently established eco retreat called Villa Pacifica. The resort, run by a group of eccentric expatriates, offers a luxuriant refuge - in the middle of an arid and poverty-stricken region - ...Show more
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