A boatload of men rushing away from a war-zone, seeking sanctuary in the islands of the Mediterranean... A squabble amongst the French political elite, over the best way to 'deal with Islam'... A broken alliance in Northern Europe,...

The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth-janglingly...

Award-winning travel writer Jubber journeys across Europe and explores its epic poems, from "The Odyssey" to "Beowulf". von Jubber, Nicholas

Fairy-Tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was formed. In The Fairy-Tellers' Trail, award-winning travel-writer Nick Jubber explores their secret...

'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders' Financial Times'Like a child...