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Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice

Shortlisted for the 2021 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year in association with the Authors` ClubSigned by the AuthorPortable and expensive, amber has always been a desirable commodity.Following the Amber Route from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, C. J. Schuler charts the origins of amber, the myths and legends that have grown around it, and the dazzling artefacts crafted from it and traded along the way. Throughout his journey, current politics and his own family`s experience of persecution and flight are never far from his mind.Schuler reflects on the route`s violent history through the centuries, not least his own family`s experience of persecution and flight.