Joanna Kavenna

The trail goes cold

For centuries, the history of the far North was a tapestry of controversies and mis- understandings, misspellings, dubious arrivals and equally dubious departures.

issue 02 April 2011

  • Venetian Navigators: The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the Far North

    Andrea di Robilant

    Faber, pp. 244

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