Baltic Approaches

Michael Russell, 2001. 256, b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w. Some spotting to top edge. Presentation label to half-title, to Frank Dobson from Altnamara Shipping plc and signed by the author, Peter Unwin (formerly British Ambassador to Copenhagen), to mark the entry into service of the M.V. Hebridean Spirit. Includes short typescript letter to Frank Dobson from the Chairman of Altnamara Shipping plc.. Reprinted with corrections (first published 1996). This book is about the Baltic Sea and the countries that surround and define it. It is not an academic treatise nor a travelogue; still less is it a guidebook. Its aim is to provide one outsider's impressions of a neglected area: its geographical and historical significance, what it looks like, the way it is changing today and what its destiny may be tomorrow. The Cold War divided it, breaking the human and commercial links that for a millennium made it a channel for contact between East and West. Now the Cold War is over, Northern Europe and the Baltic have come alive.. [9780859552288]