In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already "among the touchstones of the new travel writing" (Newsweek), one of West Germany's leading authors takes us on an insider's tour of Europe in the recent past. Focusing on Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, he describes how Europe has been moving toward a new identity.
Enzensberger makes a witty and knowledgeable traveling companion, delving into surprising corners and byways from the back alleys of Budapest to the halls of the Italian mint and striking up conversations with everyone from bankers to...

Nick Smart is fresh out of school, a wet-behind-the-ears jackaroo (agricultural trainee) on a gap year. But at Palmenter Station, nothing is what it seems. Nick is about to discover there's a lot of gray between black and white, between legal and illegal, and between right and wrong.