SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Daily Telegraph Book of the Year'Travel writing in excelsis' -Jan Morris, author of Venice'A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder' -Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun

'With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' - Joanna Pocock, author of SurrenderShortlisted in the 2024 Edward Stanford Awards for the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place'A beautifully written evocation of a world that never was' - GuardianThe year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islam...

In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar. The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Road are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct, landscapes irrevocably altered by the traumas of the twentieth century. Aged eighte...

L’Europa è la terra di quattro venti selvaggi che da secoli alimentano miti, leggende e racconti: l’Helm in Inghilterra, la Bora in Italia, Slovenia e Croazia, il Föhn in Svizzera e il Mistral in Francia. Nick Hunt si è messo sulle loro tracce, e il risultato è questo avvincente libro in cui la ricerca dei venti diventa un viaggio in porti e terre aspre, e a contatto con personaggi eccentrici: temerari cacciatori di tempeste, bizzarri appassionati di vento...

In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true desert in Spain; and the fathomless grassland steppes of Hungary.From snow-capped mountain range to dense green forest, desert ravines to threadbare, yellow o...

Nick Hunt was nog maar zes jaar oud toen zijn moeder hem meenam naar een eiland voor de kust van North Wales. Daar stak een storm op die vat kreeg op zijn veel te grote windjack. Gelukkig kon zijn moeder hem nog net op tijd vastgrijpen: het scheelde weinig of de kleine Nick was opgestegen. Sindsdien is Nick Hunt gefascineerd door wind. Te voet trok hij door gebieden van Europa waar land en mensen zijn gevormd door de wind. De mistral in Zuid-Frankrijk, de föhn in de alpen, de bora in Kroat...

Nel 1934 Patrick Leigh Fermor ha diciannove anni, e già da alcuni mesi si è lasciato alle spalle l’Inghilterra con il fermo proposito di raggiungere a piedi Costantinopoli, vivendo «come un pellegrino o un palmiere, un chierico vagante», dormendo nei fossi e nei pagliai e familiarizzando solo con i suoi simili. A diciotto anni, Nick Hunt legge i libri di Patrick Leigh Fermor e sogna di seguirne le orme. Nel 2011 inizia il suo grande viaggio: a piedi fino a Istanbul. Attraverso l’Europa, se...

Den Wind sehen wir nicht, aber wir spüren ihn. Der britische Journalist und Reiseschriftsteller Nick Hunt macht sich auf den Weg, den Wind zu erwandern. Von den Höhenzügen im Nordwesten Englands bis zu den Alpen, von den Ufern der Rhone bis zur Adriaküste führen ihn seine Wanderungen. Es sind Reisen zu wilden Winden und wilden Landschaften - und zu den Menschen, die sie bewohnen: Meteorologen und Sturmjäger, Schäfer und Segler, Exzentriker und Enthusiasten. Dabei erlebt er nicht nur hautna...

A dazzling plunge into the four strangest landscapes scattered across Europe.In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true desert in Spain; and the fathomless grassland steppes of Hungary...

Fully-illustrated, The Passenge r collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.IN THIS VOLUME: The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leïla Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by Nick Hunt • plus: the sounds and smells of the Mediterranean; the ceaseless hunt for tuna; the invention of the Mediterranean d...

This is not a book about the end of the world - it's about the start of a new one.Melting glaciers. Crumbling coasts. Vanishing seas. The feeling that our world is coming to an end has led to a rise in 'ecological grief' and prompted a wave of last-chance tourists and environmental mourners. From funeral cairns built for a dying glacier in the Swiss Alps, to selfies taken at the disappearing Aral Sea, pilgrims, both religious and secular, are making journeys to fin...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with itIn 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye.