Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece—the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, with its wharves and warehouses, dark lanes and Turkish mansions, brothels and tavernas, a tense poli... ...
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova: In her most recent book, the acclaimed Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Kassabova wrote that a border is a place where “You call into the chasm where one side is sunny, the other in darkness, and the ec...
over the border, which is the tennessee river at chattanooga. I put the boat on I-24 and there's some grade to climb. you can see lookout mountain, there was some heavy civil war fighting here. all this thick woods and ridges everywhere plus this huge river, what a nightmare that must...