Helena Drysdale is the author of two travel books, ALONE THROUGH CHINA AND TIBET and DANCING WITH THE DEAD, which described her experiences in Madagascar. Her memoir LOOKING FOR GEORGE was shortlisted for the Esquire/Waterstones non-fiction prize. She lives in Somerset, and is a frequent contributor to leading newspapers and magazines. MOTHER TONGUES, which describes her journeys with her family throughout Europe in search of the tribal identities of the many and various minority and ethnic groups, was published in 2001. Her work of narrative history set in nineteenth-century New Zealand, STRANGERLAND, is published by Picador. Photo: Dick Scott-Stewart Link to author's website...

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MOTHER TONGUES: TRAVELS THROUGH TRIBAL EUROPE - Helena Drysdale spent sixteen months travelling the length and breadth of Europe with her photographer husband and two very small daughters. From the Arctic to the Mediterranean, from the Atlantic to...

STRANGERLAND - STRANGERLAND is set in the mid-nineteenth century against a background of the Maori Wars in New Zealand. Isabella Gascoyne was the wife of a dashing cavalry officer, Charles Gascoyne, who left a...