The Journey So Far
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| Country* | City / Location | Arrival Date | Departure Date | Title (click to link to an online review**) | Author |
Published |
| England | London | 22nd May 2009 | 6th June 2009 | Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End | Tarquin Hall | 2005 |
| France | Paris | 8th June 2009 | 23rd June 2009 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | 2008 |
| Andorra | La Plata / various | 24th June 2009 | 27th June 2009 | Andorra | Peter Cameron*** | 1997 |
| Spain | Madrid | 27th June 2009 | 28th June 2009 | My Brother's Gun | Ray Loriga | 1998 |
| Portugal | Lisbon | 28th June 2009 | 10th August 2009 | What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire? | Antonio Lobo Antunes | 2008 |
| Monaco | Monaco / various | 11th August 2009 | 20th August 2009 | Monaco Cool | Robert Westgate*** | 1992 |
| Italy | Milan / Solara | 20th August 2009 | 19th September 2009 | The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana | Umberto Eco | 2004 |
| San Marino | San Marino | 20th September 2009 | 21st September 2009 | Dots on the Map | Colin Leckey*** | 2006 |
| Vatican City | Vatican City | 21st September 2009 | 2nd October 2009 | City of Secrets | John Follain*** | 2003 |
| Malta | Valletta / Sliema | 2nd October 2009 | 10th October 2009 | Family Photos | Petra Bianchi | 2008 |
| Greece | Athens | 10th October 2009 | 12th October 2009 | I'd Like | Amanda Michalopoulou | 2005 |
| Cyprus | Nicosia | 12th October 2009 | 17th October 2009 | Ledra Street | Nora Nadjarian | 2006 |
| Turkey | Kars | 18th October 2009 | 17th November 2009 | Snow | Orhan Pamuk | 2002 |
| Bulgaria | Sofia | 17th November 2009 | 18th November 2009 | Natural Novel | Georgi Gospodinov | 1999 |
| Macedonia | Skopje / various | 19th November 2009 | 5th December 2009 | Change of the System: Stories of Contemporary Macedonia | Richard Gaughran & Zoran Ancevski (eds) | 2000 |
| Albania | B____ | 6th December 2009 | 19th December 2009 | Spring Flowers, Spring Frost | Ismail Kadare | 2002 |
| Kosovo | Prishtina | 19th December 2009 | 28th December 2009 | The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo | Paula Huntley*** | 2003 |
| Serbia | Pančevo | 30th December 2009 | 10th January 2010 | Regards from Serbia | Aleksandar Zograf | 2007 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | Sarajevo | 11th January 2010 | 17th January 2010 | Sarajevo Marlboro | Miljenko Jergović | 1994 |
| Croatia | Zagreb | 18th January 2010 | 25th January 2010 | Zagreb, Exit South | Edo Popović | 2005 |
| Montenegro | Podgorica/ various | 26th January 2010 | 10th February 2010 | A Stranger's Supper: An Oral History of Centenarian Women in Montenegro | Zorka Milich | 1995 |
| Slovenia | Ljubljana | 11th February 2010 | 21st February 2010 | Fuine Blues | Andrej Skubic | 2001 |
| Hungary |
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21st February 2010 | 17th March 2010 | The Melancholy of Resistance | László Krasznahorkai | 1990 |
| Romania | Sinaia | 17th March 2010 | 23rd March 2010 | Little Fingers | Filip Florian | 2005 |
| Moldova | Chişinău | 24th March 2010 | 2nd April 2010 | Lost Province: Adventures in a Moldovan Family | Stephen Henighan*** | 2002 |
| Transnistria | Tiraspol | 2nd April 2010 | 3rd April 2010 | This is Radio PMR. News from Transnistria. A Propaganda-Book | eds. Kramar and Marcell Nimfuehr*** | 2007 |
| Ukraine | Kiev | 3rd April 2010 | 5th April 2010 | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | 1996 |
| Slovakia | Bratislava | 6th April 2010 | 10th April 2010 | The Wooden Village | Peter Pi's-Tanek | 1994 |
| Poland | Warsaw | 10th April 2010 | 16th April 2010 | The Mighty Angel | Jerzy Pilch | 2000 |
| Czech Republic | Prague | 16th April 2010 | 24th April 2010 | Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia | Michal Viewegh | 1996 |
| Austria | Farmach | 24th April 2010 | 30th April 2010 | The Weather Fifteen Years Ago | Wolf Haas | 2006 |
| Liechtenstein | Vaduz | 30th April 2010 | 10th May 2010 | Stamping Grounds: Exploring Liechtenstein and Its World Cup Dream | Charlie Connelly*** | 2005 |
| Switzerland | Geneva | 11th May 2010 | 13th May 2010 | Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story | Frederik Peeters | 2001 |
| Germany | Berlin | 14th May 2010 | 22nd May 2010 | Summerhouse, Later | Judith Hermann | 2003 |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg City | 22nd May 2010 | 12th June 2010 | An Expat's Life, Luxembourg and The White Rose | David Robinson*** | 2004 |
| Belgium | Brussels / various | 13th June 2010 | 26th June 2010 | A Tall Man in a Low Land: Some Time Among The Belgians | Harry Pearson*** | 1999 |
| The Netherlands | Maassluis | 26th June 2010 | 10th July 2010 | The Sundial | Maarten 't Hart | 2002 |
| Denmark | Copenhagen | 10th July 2010 | 1st August 2010 | The Quiet Girl | Peter Hřeg | 2008 |
| Sweden | Swedish Archipelago | 1st August 2010 | 19th August 2010 | Italian Shoes | Henning Mankell | 2006 |
| Norway | Oslo | 19th August 2010 | 31st August 2010 | Stella Descending | Linn Ullmann | 2001 |
| Sápmi | Inari / Karasjok | 31st August 2010 | 7th September 2010 | Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name | Vendela Vida*** | 2007 |
| Finland | Tampere | 9th September 2010 | 15th September 2010 | Troll: A Love Story | Johanna Sinisalo | 2003 |
| Estonia | Tallinn | 15th September 2010 | 24th September 2010 | Things In The Night | Mati Unt | 1990 |
| Latvia | Riga | 24th September 2010 | 11th October 2010 | Tale of the White Crow: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Latvia | Iveta Melnika | 2003 |
| Lithuania | Vilnius | 11th October 2010 | 30th October 2010 | The Last Girl | Stephan Collishaw*** | 2003 |
| Belarus | Minsk / various | 30th October 2010 | 5th November 2010 | The Trace of the Black Wind: Through the Eyes of Children | eds: Vasil Yakavenka, Mark Bence | 1996 |
| Russia (Central Federal District) | Moscow | 6th November 2010 | 30th November 2010 | The Sacred Book of the Werewolf | Victor Pelevin | 2008 |
| Alkhan Kala / Grozny (Chechnya) | 1st December 2010 | 16th December 2010 | The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire | Khassan Baiev | 2005 | |
| Russia (Southern Federal District) | Astrakhan / various | 17th December 2010 | 23rd December 2010 | Last Boat to Astrakhan | Robert Haupt*** | 1998 |
| Russia (Volga Federal District) | Samara | 23rd December 2010 | 28th December 2010 | Little Tenement on the Volga | C. S. Walton*** | 2001 |
| 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) | 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 (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 (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 | Wendell Steavenson*** | 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, Yuri Gollov | 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 Touryan Miller*** | 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 | Joe Sacco*** | 1996 | |
| Israel | Bat Yam | 28th January 2012 | The Same Sea | Amos Oz | 2002 | |
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To see a list of planned future locations click here.
To read my reviews of places visited to date, see my blog at: http://readingtheworld-webspinner.blogspot.com/
My planned visits to future locations include all of the current recognised world states - and some additional locations. I plan to visit each of these global locations before returning to England.
Given that the global map is constantly changing - and that these locations will take me several years to reach (even if I read a book a month!) - my plans here are subject to change, and any suggestions / comments on suitability are welcome.
.... comments, reviews and suggestions to: contact@readingtheworld.co.uk
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