The Stanfords Travel writers festival is honoured to be the setting of author and social anthropologist Erika Fatland’s debut virtual book festival interview. Here she talks to Julia Wheeler about her book The Border. Erika travelled along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way. The Border is a book about Russia and Russian history without its author ever entering Russia itself; a book about being the neighbour of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history. It is a chronicle of the colourful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations, their cultures, their people, their landscapes. Learn about the border which moves at night and has left people in a different country and why Erika had to close down her social media accounts after her views about the changing Russian border went viral.

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STANFORDS TRAVEL WRITERS FESTIVAL
Travel the world through a series of talks from authors as the world-famous independent map and travel bookshop brings you the Stanfords Travel Writers Festival online.

Watch 23 talks for FREE on the Stanfords website from 28th January - 4th February and online thereafter. Travel may not be an option right now but we can still see the world through travel writing and we have an amazing lineup of authors to guide you around the world.

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