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2011-2012

RUSSIA TO SENEGAL

ARRIVALS...
When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else” ― Rebecca Wells (1992)

Country

City / Location

Arrival Date

Departure Date

Title 

Author

Published

Russia (Northwestern Federal District)

Murmansk

28th December 2010

2nd January 2011

Return to Murmansk

Henry Swain***

1996

Transnistria (part 2)

Bender

2nd January 2011

20th January 2011

Siberian Education

Nicolai Lilin

2010

Russia (Urals Federal District)

Yekaterinburg

20th January 2011

18th February 2011

Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak

Jeanne Guillemin***

2001

Russia (Siberian Federal District)

Novosibirsk / Various

18th February 2011

27th March 2011

In Siberia

Colin Thubron***

2000

Russia (Far Eastern Federal District)

Chukotka / Kamchatka

27th March 2011

6th April 2011

The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East

Alexia Bloch / Laurel Kendall***

2004

Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar / Tuva / various

6th April 2011

14th April 2011

Dateline Mongolia

Michael Kohn***

2006

Mongolia (Gobi Desert)

Gobi desert

15th April 2011

26th April 2011

Walking the Gobi: 1,600 Mile-trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair

Helen Thayer***

2007

China North (Inner Mongolia)

Lan Huu / Crow Pull Mountain / Various

26th April 2011

3rd May 2011

Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia

George Crane***

2000

China Northwest (Xinjiang)

Urumqi / Khotan/Miran / various

4th May 2011

17th May 2011

The Road to Miran: Travels in the Forbidden Zone of Xinjiang

Christa Paula***

1990

Kazakhstan

Almaty / Astana / various

17th May 2011

28th May 2011

In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared

Christopher Robbins***

2007

Uzbekistan

Tashkent / Quva / various

28th May 2011

8th June 2011

Taxi to Tashkent: Two Years with the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan

Tom Fleming***

2007

Kyrgyzstan

Bishkek

8th June 2011

21st June 2011

Revolution Baby: Motherhood and Anarchy in Kyrgyzstan

Saffia Farr***

2007

Tajikistan

Dushanbe

21st June 2011

28th June 2011

Hurramabad

Andrei Volos

1998

Afghanistan

Kabul / Herat

28th June 2011

8th July 2011

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

2007

Turkmenistan

Ashgabat

8th July 2011

19th July 2011

Unknown Sands

John Kropf***

2006

Azerbaijan

Baku / various

20th July 2011

22nd August 2011

Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic

Thomas Goltz***

1999

Nagorno-Karabakh

Stepanakert / various

22nd August 2011

13th September 2011

Black Garden

Thomas de Waal***

2004

Georgia

Tbilisi / Sukhumi (Abkhazia)

13th September 2011

29th September 2011

Stories I Stole

WendellSteavenson***

2002

South Ossetia

Tskhinval / various

30th September 2011

1st October 2011

South Ossetia: Chronicle of Contract Murder (this is a 5.5 MB PDF download)

eds: Olga Kostina,Ilmira Malikovra, YuriGollov

2008

Abkhazia

Sukhumi / various

1st October 2011

7th October 2011

The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules

Fazil Iskander

1989 (1978)

Armenia

Yerevan / various

8th October 2011

14th October 2011

Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope

Donald E Miller & Lorna TouryanMiller***

2003

Iran

Tehran

14th October 2011

30th October 2011

Censoring an Iranian Love Story

Shahriar Mandanipour

2009

Kurdistan

Dohuk / Sananjad / various

30th October 2011

20th December 2011

A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts

Christiane Bird***

2005

Iraq

Baghdad

20th December 2011

1st January 2012

The Baghdad Blog

Salam Pax (aka Salam al-Janabi)

2003

Syria

Damascus

2nd January 2012

5th January 2012

The Hedgehog

Zakaria Tamer

2009

Lebanon

Beirut

6th January 2012

16th January 2012

Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir

Zena el Khalil***

2009

Palestine

Gaza

16th January 2012

28th January 2012

Palestine

Joe Sacco***

1996

Israel

Bat Yam

28th January 2012

4th February 2012

The Same Sea

Amos Oz

2002

Jordan

Amman

4th February 2012

9th March 2012

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

Queen Noor al Hussein

2003

Egypt

Cairo

9th March 2012

17th March 2012

Taxi 

Khaled Al Khamissi

2008

Libya

Tripoli

17th March 2012

18th April 2012

In the Country of Men

Hisham Matar

2006

Tunisia

Korba / Tunis

18th April 2012

9th May 2012

Waiting in the Future for the Past to Come

Sabiha Khemir

1993

Algeria

Algiers

9th May 2012

12th June 2012

The Lovers of Algeria

Anouar Benmalek

2004

Morocco

Tangier

12th June 2012

17th June 2012

Welcome to Paradise

Mahi Binebine

2004

Gibraltar

Gibraltar

18th June 2012

3rd July 2012

Rock Black: Ten Gibraltarian Stories

M. G. Sanchez

2008

Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)

Western Sahara

4th July 2012

9th July 2012

Oasis: A Novel

Laureen Vonnegut***

2006

Mauritania

Nouakchott / various

10th July 2012

26th July 2012

Travels in Mauritania

Peter Hudson***

1991

Cape Verde

Praia

27th July 2012

21st August 2012

The Last Will and Testament of Senhorda Silva Araujo

Germano Almeida

1991

Gambia

Banjul / Various

23rd August 2012

4th October 2012

Coup D'etat by the Gambia National Army

Lt. Col. SamsudeenSarr

2007

Senegal

Dakar

5th October 2012

25th November 2012

Senegal Sojourn: Selections from One Teacher's Journal

M. Kathleen Madigan***

2010

 

*** Non-native author.
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