Along the Amber Route

St Petersburg to Venice

CJ Schüler author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Sandstone Press Ltd

Published:27th Feb '20

£16.99

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Along the Amber Route cover

Full UK marketing campaign by the Sandstone Press team.

Following the Amber Route from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, C.J. Schüler 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.

Light, portable and high in value, amber is an ideal commodity for long-distance trade. An Amber Route, comparable to the Silk Road, ran from the Baltic to the Mediterranean for thousands of years.

In Along the Amber Route, C.J. Schüler follows this route by bus, train and boat for 2,500 kilometres along river valleys, forest paths and Roman roads. His journey traces both the greatest fault lines of European geopolitics and his own family’s history. As he explores lands contested by Romans and Vandals, Teutons and Slavs, lost empires and the former Iron Curtain, Schüler must also confront his own family history, Nazism and the Holocaust.

Charming.

* The Daily Mail *

Wonderful account of the story of amber.

* Late Night Live on ABC *

This timely and powerful book is more than an enticing travelogue or a paean to amber.

* The Financial Times *

Packed with intriguing diversions through former Soviet states, the author's journey begins in St Petersburg's Amber Room and intertwines with the story of his grandfather's flight from Nazi Germany.

* Lonely Planet *

A rich and rewarding read, providing a kaleidoscopic multi-layered view of Central Europe.’

* BookBlast *

Crisp, quirky dialogue and incisive scene-sketching [...] full of incident and anecdote and the oddest facts imaginable. Pure pleasure.


Artfully woven into these stories is a contemporary travelogue of [Schüler’s] experience; a poetic memoir of his experience of constantly moving through these landscapes


An excellent book, and perfect holiday reading. Deeply moving.

* Edward Biddulph, Oxford Archaeology *

Schüler is the perfect guide to this complex history.

* Vanora Benne

  • Short-listed for BOOKMARK Book of the Year 2020 (UK).
  • Short-listed for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2021 (UK)
  • Long-listed for JQ Wingate Prize 2021 (UK)

ISBN: 9781912240913

Dimensions: 240mm x 165mm x 30mm

Weight: 573g

352 pages