Philip Marsden Bücher

Das Schicksal der Helena Bronska ist exemplarisch für viele Lebensläufe unserer Zeit: Noch im alten Jahrhundert in Osteuropa geboren, ist die irisch-polnische Adelige immer wieder auf der Flucht. Die Reise, die ihre Tochter Zofia in das Dorf ihrer Kindheit führt, das inzwischen zu Weissrußland gehört, ist auch eine Reise in die Geschichte dieses Grenzlands. Philip Marsden lässt mit der Begabung des geborenen Geschichtenerzählers eine verschwundene Zeit und untergegangene Orte wiederauferstehen und setzt gleichzeitig zwei tapferen, unabhängigen Frauen ein Denkmal.

Skythen, Kosaken, Duchoborzen, Molokanen und Adygen – klangvolle Namen aus der fremden Welt des Kaukasus. Auf der Suche nach uralten Volksstämmen im 'Land der Federn' begegnet der Autor Menschen, die sich trotz härtester Existenzbedingungen ihren Glauben an die Zukunft bewahrt haben, und berichtet fesselnd von einem Leben nach dem Zusammenbruch des Sowjetreichs.

From an award-winning travel writer, this is an evocative journey around some of the country's most ancient sites and ritual places, and a profound exploration of the relationship between man and the landscape.

A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun.

Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago.

Argus sets out on a journey away from his valley and his parents, never knowing what adventure will befall him next

A collection of the best pieces from the "Spectator" in the last decade. The perceptive commentary vividly recaptures the events and themes of the 1980s. The figure of Thatcher is given particular attention - her policies, her leadership and why she has dominated for 10 years

One of Britain's foremost writers of place takes an evocative journey along the western coast of Ireland and Scotland to chart the perennial allure of this perilous and myth-rich stretch of sea

After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded a civilization and underwent a diaspora that brought many of the great ideas of the East to Western Europe. Today, shrunk to a tenth of its former size and wracked by war with Azerbaijan and by earthquakes, its people still retain one of the world's most fascinating and misunderstood cultures.