About the Author

Philip Marsden is the author of A Far Country: Travels in Ethiopia, The Crossing Place: Among the Armenians (which won the Somerset Maugham Award), The Bronski House, The Spirit-Wrestlers: And Other Survivors of the Russian Century‘(winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book of the Year Award) and the novel The Main Cages. He is the editor of The Spectator Book of Travel Writing and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His work has been translated into ten languages.

Reviews

'Much more than mere beach-reading. MArsden writes with deep feeling for a simpler, more meaningful life - and with a real sense of drama of each and every life.' Evening Standard 'Sails us back to a world somewhere between du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek and Swallows and Amazons.' Observer