Joan Gannij was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles. She began her career as a photojournalist documenting pop culture. Born on Amsterdam Avenue, she decided to explore her European roots by relocating to Amsterdam in 1987. She has written and edited various travel guides in the last fifteen years, including the Norway section of Cadogan's "Flying Visits" "Scandinavia," She has her own editorial office in Amsterdam and is currently studying astronomy. Rose Baring first fell under the Russian spell at the age of twelve, in a shoebox of a classroom known as "The Kremlin." She has...