The Stanford Dolman Award winning author, Nicholas Jubber’s new book The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales looks at the global origins of the fairy tales we all know so well.
Here, Nicholas takes us on a brief fairy tellers’ trail:
Continue reading The Fairy Tellers’ TrailIn his latest book Epic Continent, award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber takes us on a fascinating adventure through our continent’s most enduring epic poems to learn how they were shaped by their times, and how they have since shaped us. Here he gives us an example of how there are echoes of these tales today:
Continue reading Europe’s Epic Legacy by Nicolas JubberAward-Winning Author & Travel Writer Nicholas Jubber set out to follow in the footsteps of Leo Africanus, the 16th-century traveller, crossing the forgotten places of North Africa, scarred by terrorist occupation, toward the legendary Timbuktu. Continue reading Nicholas Jubber, The Timbuktu School for Nomads // Stanfords Travel Writers Festival
