'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...

Selected as a Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator"Travel writing in excelsis." -Jan Morris, author of Venice"A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder." -Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunNick Hunt sets off on an unlikely quest: to follow four of Europe's winds across the continent....

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 eighteen, Nick Hunt read A Time ...

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 shouldnot 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 primevalforest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true desert in Spain; and the fathomlessgrassland steppes of Hungary.From snow-capped mountain range to dense green forest, desert ravines to thread...

Nick Hunt nous avait emmenés à la rencontre des vents d’Europe dans Où vont les vents sauvages. Nous le retrouvons alors qu’il arpente les quatre coins du continent, à la découverte des lieux les plus inattendus, "qui ne devraient pas se trouver là, si proches de nous". Depuis une zone polaire en Écosse, à travers la jungle de Pologne, un désert espagnol et les grandes steppes de Hongrie, nous suivons cette étonnante promenade, sensible, informée et littéraire, dans des paysages dont on a ...

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...

Avreste mai pensato di imbattervi nella tundra artica in Scozia, di passeggiare all’ombra della foresta vergine in Polonia e in Bielorussia, di traversare steppe erbose sferzate da venti selvaggi in Ungheria o di esplorare canyon rocciosi del deserto in Spagna? In Sentieri di sabbia e ghiaccio l’acclamato scrittore di viaggi Nick Hunt ci guida attraverso le terre più insolite d’Europa, terre estreme che a un primo sguardo appaiono fuori posto. Più simili a exclavi dell’Africa, dell’Asia, d...

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...

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...

On a beaucoup écrit sur les fleuves, qui ignorent les frontières, brassent cultures et marchandises, créent des civilisations – mais on ignore le vent. Et pourtant! Sans lui il n’y aurait sur Terre aucune vie, l’humidité stagnerait sur les océans, les plaines seraient des déserts de feu ou gèleraient, et faute de pollinisation tout deviendrait stérile. La fascination de Nick Hunt pour le vent lui vient, dit-il, de l’enfance, lorsque avec sa mère il se trouva pris dans une grande tempête su...

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...