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Top Travel Books You Must Pick Up At Kolkata's Boi Mela 2025 And Delhi's World Book Fair 2025

2 months ago | outlooktraveller.com | Kapka Kassabova |Sophy Roberts |Alastair Humphreys |Taran N Khan

While many perceive Kabul and Afghanistan solely through the lens of conflict and turmoil, Khan offers a profound and captivating perspective that reveals the city's true essence. Her lyrical, personal, and meditative portrayal captures the vibrant life of Kabul—its bookstores, cinemas, wedding halls, solemn graveyards, and poppy fields. Though it's not often one encounters a woman walking the streets of Kabul, Khan made this her daily reality for years.
ANIMA | Kirkus Reviews

Aug 20, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Kapka Kassabova |Amy Tan |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley

A lush ode to “one of the oldest nomadic peoples to have entered modernity with their animals.”A fascinating account of pastoralism in the Balkans.
Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

Aug 7, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Kapka Kassabova

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Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

Aug 7, 2024 | lithub.com | Kapka Kassabova

This story begins with a picture. A man stands inside a circle of goats. Their black-and-white coats touch the ground. They have horns like sabers and hermit faces. He does not look at the camera but at the goats. Consumed, I thought, he is consumed by his animals. Immediately, I knew that a way of life that stretched back to some unknown time was contained in this moment. The picture began to move before my eyes.
5 Travel Books Written By Women To Pick Up On Your Next Trip

Jul 2, 2024 | outlooktraveller.com | Sophy Roberts |Kapka Kassabova

Award-winning English journalist and author Alice Albinia takes a journey along the Indus, one of the oldest and largest rivers in the world, from Karachi to Tibet. Along the way, she explores the people, history, and cultures of the regions it flows through. The river has played a significant role in fostering civilizations and religions such as Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism.
Global chains pile the Christmas tat high – but I found joy in a tiny Scottish farm shop | Kapka Kassabova

Dec 21, 2023 | theguardian.com | Kapka Kassabova

The wreath is made from real pine branches. It is attractive and cheap. I can smell the pine. But the label confirms what I already know: made in Germany and shipped across the sea then loaded on to lorries along recently expanded motorways, to this supermarket in Scotland. And it so happens that I know the people who made this and the million other wreaths that sit in the warehouses of Europe’s supermarket chains. They are “unskilled” workers from the mountains of southern Bulgaria.
In the Ladies' Pool — The Dial

Jul 11, 2023 | thedial.world | Kapka Kassabova

I’d been avoiding them because of their neglect, but now I went into the old baths. You gave 70 cents to a woman in a white overcoat and you could spend the whole morning inside. Though staying in the pool for more than thirty minutes was not recommended. You could get a headache or pass out – which I nearly did after spending two hours inside on my first day. The voices of water came from all sides. All was vapors, drips and rumblings and at first it was hard to see who was inside.
David Robinson Reviews: Elixir by Kapka Kassabova

Feb 13, 2023 | booksfromscotland.com | Kapka Kassabova |Vikki Reilly

‘Somehow, in an alchemical process that involves stirring together vast knowledge of plants, history, spirituality, magic and local folklore, Kassabova has mastered the art of tying together the inner and outer landscapes of southern Bulgaria.’In Kapka Kassabova’s Elixir, her latest book on her native Bulgaria, David Robinson finds an imaginative history and a fantastic landscape.