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|title=A Journey to Nowhere: Among the Lands and History of Courland

|sort=Journey to Nowhere: Among the Lands and History of Courland

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780857050366

|pages=288

|publisher=MacLehose Press

|date=April 2012

|summary=A definitive book about a lost corner of Europe, and a fine travelogue.

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When I turn to travel writing, it is a healthy balance of that about places I have been to, and places I've not. But without sounding too big-headed it is seldom places I have never heard of in any context - especially those I have passed through, what's more. The 'nowhere' in focus here is Courland, which was more-or-less the coastal slither of the top of Latvia, and was once an independent Duchy. In one fell swoop Kauffmann seems to become the only travel writer to have written a book about the place, at least for many a generation, and, it's pleasant to say, probably the best one could have hoped for.

Little covers Latvia in fiction - [[The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell]] is about it. [[:Category:Travel|Our list of travel books]] had not yet reached this corner of the world either.

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