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Borderlines is on its way… my book can be pre-ordered through any of the sources linked here by my publishers. It’s an unusual angle on European history. I hope you like it. hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-b…
Borderlines
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Borderlines
@BastonBorders
Lewis Baston - writing a book about borderlands in Europe: their history, politics, landscape, folklore, future. Represented by A.M. Heath Literary Agency.
Joined December 2019
- I stood boggle-eyed at the administration building in Satu Mare. My tolerance for this sort of thing is high but WOW.
- Possibly my favourite building in the world - the church of St Anne in Vilnius. It was centuries ahead of its time when it was built.
- I took this picture yesterday and I’ve only just realised how clever this placard with a historical view of the main square in Gołdap is.
- One of my favourite border-ish places. This 🇷🇴 grand station, Suceava-Nord, serves a small, quiet suburb. It was built on this grand scale because before 1918 it was the last station in the Habsburg empire so it had customs facilities - and an image to maintain…
- At the corner of Bohemia 🇨🇿 Saxony 🇩🇪 (ex DDR) and Bavaria 🇩🇪. The boundary stones indicate past states too (ČS, B). As part of the Iron Curtain it was fortified once but no trace of that now. Photos a year ago today
- Replying to @BastonBordersIt’s like a Communist era interpretation of a vampire castle where bad things happen and you certainly shouldn’t spend the night.
- I don’t know if I can do this book anymore. The world is so bleak, and evil is so rampant, and it feels like my country and my continent have already failed.
- International border! I’m in Baarle-Nassau 🇳🇱 but Baarle-Hertog 🇧🇪 starts at the corner. The two conjoined Baarles have some of the world’s most intricate and oddest borders running between them.
- So much to learn from this fascinating map; ‘region first’ attachment overlaps a lot with borderlands. Not surprising to see Alsace, Flanders, Czech Silesia and Transylvania- but Burgenland too?
- Borderlines has arrived! Just enjoyed that authorial moment of pleasure and satisfaction that comes with opening the box of new, fresh books.
- Replying to @BastonBordersEvery angle a new way of being terrifying.
- A year ago today - Pécs 🇭🇺. As you may know, I’m fond of these provincial Hungarian and ex-Hungarian cities. Pécs has the distinctive feature that its Islamic period is represented so prominently…
