Nicholas Jubber: 4 books
Epic Continent
Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
'The prose is colourful and vigorous ... Jubber's journeying has indeed been epic, in scale and in ambition. In this thoughtful travelogue he has woven together colourful ancient and modern threads into a European tapestry that combines the sombre and the sparkling' Spectator
'A genuine epic' Wanderlust
Award-winning...
Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard
A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
An engrossing blend of travel writing and history, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah’s Beard traces one man’s adventure-filled journey through today’s Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and describes his remarkable attempt to make sense of the present by delving into the past.
Setting...
The Timbuktu School for Nomads
Across the Sahara in the Shadow of Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
"A passionate paean to the Sahara." -- New York Times, Season's Best Travel Books
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....
by Nicholas Jubber
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
In 1177, Pope Alexander III wrote a letter to the legendary Priest-King of the Indies, Prester John. As his emissary he chose his physician Master Philip. No one knew where the elusive monarch's kingdom lay (or whether he even existed), but Master Philip was undeterred and set out from Rome...and...