Inspired by Nansen’s accounts of Arctic journeys, the child protagonists of Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday (1933) transform the English lake on which they spend their holidays into the scene of an Arctic expedition. This ...

Borders are traces, that is to say, they are a form of writing – and thus they are also texts to be read. We often think of that which is on the other side of the border as something unknown, and the border itself also in ...