WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country.
Now in John Murray B-format, the famous exploration of Northern Greece by the great twentieth century travel writer known to generations for A Time of Gifts.
An enthralling story of a love affair with the sea, how one man and his family transformed themselves into ocean sailors, and found themselves in the process.
The author makes a series of journeys, carrying out artistic practices uncovering histories, geographies, and biographies of salt and the places it has passed through. These practices explore both personal family history and the global entanglements of trade, labour, colonialism and migration narrated through a poetics of salt. 72 b&w 8 col. illus.
The author makes a series of journeys, carrying out artistic practices uncovering histories, geographies, and biographies of salt and the places it has passed through. These practices explore both personal family history and the global entanglements of trade, labour, colonialism and migration narrated through a poetics of salt. 72 b&w 8 col. illus.