The Little Book of Honey

Gowing, Elizabeth

Elbow Publishing

What if a woman from a century ago could help you understand your life now? 'Edith and I; on the trail of an Edwardian traveller in Kosovo' tells the story of how tracking down anthropologist, aid worker and feisty Balkan explorer, Edith Durham, took her biographer to places and decisions she never thought she'd reach.\nIt's the story of two Kosovo journeys a century apart. In 1900, Europe's last wilderness was explored by a most unlikely champion, a stout, stubborn Englishwoman who travelled in her tam o'shanter across the Accursed Mountains into Kosovo. Edith Durham was dubbed 'Queen of the Highlanders' by the Albanians who honoured her for her anthropological writing, her humanitarian aid and her tireless lobbying for their cause.\nOne hundred years later, Elizabeth Gowing came to Kosovo and also fell in love with the country. Dividing her time between there and London, she thought that no-one would understand her identity crisis; but as Elizabeth unravels Edith's story through archives and museum collections in Britain and retraces Edith's steps in Kosovo she learns from her what she should do with her life.\nTracing the revelations in old diaries, jolting along Kosovan roads in a 'motokultivator', learning from Edith the secrets of the harem, and from monks the treasures of Unesco World Heritage Site monasteries, Elizabeth travels on Edith's trail and ends up finding not only an Edwardian heroine but also a guide to her own very twenty-first century dilemma.\nJohn McCarthy says of the book, 'Elizabeth Gowing’s descriptions of people and places will have you wanting to head to Kosovo on the next available flight. Her passion for the country shines through her quest to discover the life of Edith Durham, another British woman who took Kosovo and Kosovars to her heart.'\nElizabeth's first book, 'Travels in Blood and Honey; becoming a beekeeper in Kosovo' (Signal Books, 2011) was described by The Times as 'a sheer delight; a beguiling, bittersweet story of a lively love affair with a traditional world - in transition to new nationhood', and by The Lady as 'a bold, unique stride across genres - with a sense of humour and Famous Five enthusiasm'

Edith and I: On the Trail of an Edwardian Traveller in Kosovo

Elizabeth Gowing is not a likely yogini. She is too fond of cake and To-do lists, and sometimes falls over on her mat. But yoga has taken her on journeys both inside and out and now she follows yoga around Britain – from the village hall where a quivering triangle pose was interrupted by the council recycling collection to a sound gong bath in the country's noisiest city, from Cornwall to Scotland. She discovers prisoners finding solace in child's pose; children finding expression in dancer pose, and dancers sitting bendily in cobbler's pose. Her feet start to hurt and she realizes that yoga is a current of shared experience that runs quietly through British society, through Middle England to the nation's extremes from Newcastle to Nottingham, East Anglia to West Kilbride, she untangles the Ashtanga from the Kundalini, the Sanskrit from the whimsical new-age, and finds the ways that yoga is rebuilding communities and lives – and her own wobbling body.Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, Gowing evokes the characters and communities she meets along a fascinating journey in a celebration of ancient wisdom solving modern-day problems and the exultation of finally mastering the Crow.

Unlikely Positions: A Yoga Journey Around Britain (Bradt Travel Guide)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Bradt Travel Guides

'A wonderful writer about Pristina....Interesting and different.' - Matthew Parris. 'What a fantastic read! Elizabeth is full of wonderful stories and experiences, with delicious recipes inter-woven.' - Lesley Waters'enthralling...a wonderful evocation of a place that most of us know so little about. And I have every intention of trying some of the recipes.' --Sophie Grigson

Travels in Blood and Honey: Becoming a Beekeeper in Kosovo

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Signal Books

A journey through two centuries of Balkan history in the company of eight inspiring women: pioneers and fighters in very diverse ways, they were determined to build lives for themselves, and in doing so they influenced the lives of others. Each was distinctive and distinguished and swam against the social current; and yet each was a representative of their land and their time, and has something to teach us about the realities for women in all countries and ages.\nStaka Skenderova (1831-1891) Bosnia-Herzegovina 
Maria Jurić Zagorka (1873-1957) Croatia 
Xenia Petrović-Njegoš (1881-1960) Montenegro 
Maga Magazinović (1882–1968) Serbia 
Margaret Hasluck (1885-1948) Albania 
Shote Galica (1895-1927) Kosovo 
Musine Kokalari (1917-1983) Albania 
Esma Redžepova (1943-2016) North Macedonia

No Man's Lands: eight extraordinary women in Balkan history

Wilton, Robert

Elbow

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