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His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders' Financial Times'Like a child after the Pied Piper I pursued Jubber into a world both human and full of magic. A carnival of a book, rigorously researched and jostling with life' Amy Jeffs, author of Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain'Magical...

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The surprising origins and people behind the world's most influential magical tales: the people who told and re-shaped them, the landscapes that forged them, and the cultures that formed them and were in turn formed by them.

Fairy-Tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was formed. In The Fairy-Tellers' Trail, award-winning travel-writer Nick Jubber explores their secret history of fairy-tales: the people who told them, the landscapes that forged them, and the cultures that formed them. While there are certain names inextricably entwined with the concept of a fairy-tale, such as ...

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Der preisgekrönte Autor Nicholas Jubber bereist Europa von der Türkei bis nach Island und erkundet die großen Epen unseres Kontinents - von der Odyssee und den Kosovo-Mythos über das Rolands- und Nibelungenlied bis zum Beowulf und zur Njáls-Saga. Er greift zurück auf prägende Werke aus alten Epochen und untersucht Fragen, die die Menschen in Europa seit Jahrtausenden bewegen: Was bedeutet uns Nationalität, was ist Fundamentalismus, welchen Ei...

A thought-provoking treatise interwoven with blistered-feet-on-the-ground accounts of spots both pretty and gritty' National Geographic'Compelling, thought-provoking, and courageous, this epic-poetic journey peels back layers of collective emotional and imaginative inheritance. Jubber gets under the skin of our complicated continent and his timing is dead right' Kapka Kassabova'A genuine epic' Wanderlust'The prose is colourful and vigorous...J...

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The travel writer Nicholas Jubber explores the terrain of epic poems, taking stock of the modern day nature of the settings of "The Odyssey", "Beowulf", "Song Of Roland" and others. Reflects on European identity in troubled times.

A boatload of men rushing away from a war-zone, seeking sanctuary in the islands of the Mediterranean... A squabble amongst the French political elite, over the best way to 'deal with Islam'... A broken alliance in Northern Europe, grievances festering, leading to wholesale destruction... Are these stories ripped from the front pages of our newspapers - or the plots of epic sagas written hundreds of years ago? In A Continent of Epics, award-wi...

The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the horizon. Following in the footsteps of 16th century traveller Leo Africanus, Nicholas Jubber went on a turbulent adventure to the forgotten place...

Bereits als Kind tauchte der Brite Nicholas Jubber ein in den Lebensraum der Nomaden Nordafrikas - auf dem Schoß seines Vaters beim gemeinsamen Star-Wars-Schauen. Seitdem faszinieren ihn die Sahara und die Rituale ihrer legendären Bewohner. Inzwischen ist er länger mit den Nomaden Nordafrikas unterwegs gewesen als jeder andere Europäer unserer Zeit. In »Die acht Lektionen der Wüste« nimmt er uns mit auf eine Entdeckungsreise an der Seite der l...

The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the horizon. Following in the footsteps of 16th century traveller Leo Africanus, Nicholas Jubber went on a turbulent adventure to the forgotten place...

The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the horizon. Following in the footsteps of 16th century traveller Leo Africanus, Nicholas Jubber went on a turbulent adventure to the forgotten place...

A journey through modern Iran and Afghanistan that sheds light on present conflicts by tapping the most surprising of sources--a thousand-year-old epic poem