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PUBLISHER: Sandstone Press Ltd

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781912240913

RRP: £16.99

PAGES: 320

PUBLICATION DATE:
February 27, 2020

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Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice

C. J. Shuler

Following the Amber Route from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, C. J. Schuler charts the origins of amber, the myths and legends that have grown around it, and the dazzling artefacts crafted from it and traded along the way. Schuler reflects on the route’s violent history through the centuries, not least his own family’s experience of persecution and flight.

C. J. Shuler

C.J. Schuler is the author of three illustrated histories of cartography: Mapping the World, Mapping the City and Mapping the Sea and Stars and co-author of the best-selling Traveller’s Atlas. His most recent book, Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies: A History of the Authors’ Club of London, 1891-2016 was published in November 2016.He has also written on literature, travel and the arts for The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Tablet, The Financial Times and the New Statesman. He was chairman of the Authors’ Club from 2008 to 2015.

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