BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON

BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON

advertised By Stanley Sobari

By Rebecca West  (1941) “All Central Europe seems to me to be enacting a fantasy which I cannot interpret,” wires West in one of travel literature’s most dizzying door-stoppers. This tale of a journey through Yugoslavia in 1934 is a political portrait of the Balkans replete with attitude, opinion, and conjecture-some outdated, some timeless.

Moody Ireland

MOODY IRELAND

By Stanley Sobari

PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA By Roddy Doyle  (1993) Meet a 10-year-old hooligan named Paddy who rattles around in this fast-;aced, poverty pinched paean to late 1960s Ireland. “We were coming down our road. Kevin stopped at a gate and bashed it with his stick,” begins the book-and it never lets up.

JERUSALEM

JERUSALEM

By Stanley Sobari

By Guy Delisle  (2012) Illustrating life as an expat in the Holy City, this travelogue captures the socialand religious swirl of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish populations.

CARNET DE VOYAGE

CARNET DE VOYAGE

By Stanley Sobari

By Craig Thompson (2004) This sketchbook diary chronicles months of pensive wandering through Europe and Morocco in cartoons that show the full dimension of cultural alienation and occasional enlightenment.

TRAVEL ILUSTRATED

TRAVEL ILUSTRATED

By Stanley Sobari

PERSEPOLIS By Marjane Satrapi (2000) “I believe that an  entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists,” writes Satrapi in the introduction to her tragicomic-strip memoir of growing up in Tehran, Iran, during the Islamic Revolution.

TRIESTE AND THE MEANING OF NOWHERE

TRIESTE AND THE MEANING OF NOWHERE

By Stanley Sobari

By Jan Morris (2001) “It is not one of your iconic cities, instantly visible in the memory or the imagination,” writes Morris of the unprepossessing Adriatic haven of Trieste, overlooked by travelers-but not by history.