James on tasting her first avocado
Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility'
with the thrill of a new job and a room of her own in a busy boarding house
through family conversations
who selects the guide's 8000-plus featured antiques
Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean week art James on tasting her firstA gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller writer of our time' John le CarreIn 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were for most Brits and Americans part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across