JENS MÜHLING has worked as a foreign reporter for German newspapers and magazines for two decades. His features and essays on Eastern Europe have won him several awards, and his travelogue A Journey into Russia was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award in 2015.

• Foreword // xiThe Flood (Prologue) // 1Russia // 21Georgia // 77Abkhazia // 101Turkey // 129Bulgaria // 177Romania // 205Ukraine // 233Crimea // 263The Ark (Epilogue) // 291Acknowledgements // 301Bibliography // 303

‘A brisk and brilliant tour.’

JENS MÜHLING has worked as a foreign reporter for German newspapers and magazines for two decades. His features and essays on Eastern Europe have won him several awards, and his travelogue A Journey into Russia was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award in 2015.

• Foreword // xiThe Flood (Prologue) // 1Russia // 21Georgia // 77Abkhazia // 101Turkey // 129Bulgaria // 177Romania // 205Ukraine // 233Crimea // 263The Ark (Epilogue) // 291Acknowledgements // 301Bibliography // 303

‘A brisk and brilliant tour.’

JENS MÜHLING has worked as a foreign reporter for German newspapers and magazines for two decades. His features and essays on Eastern Europe have won him several awards, and his travelogue A Journey into Russia was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award in 2015.

• Foreword // xiThe Flood (Prologue) // 1Russia // 21Georgia // 77Abkhazia // 101Turkey // 129Bulgaria // 177Romania // 205Ukraine // 233Crimea // 263The Ark (Epilogue) // 291Acknowledgements // 301Bibliography // 303

‘A brisk and brilliant tour.’