Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece by Hoffman, Julian
Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece by Hoffman, Julian

Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece

"A book that will refresh your soul."--Carol Drinkwater, author of The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life,...
$36.00 USD
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Author: Julian Hoffman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece by Hoffman, Julian

Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece

$36.00
Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece by Hoffman, Julian

Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece

$36.00
Author: Julian Hoffman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

"A book that will refresh your soul."--Carol Drinkwater, author of The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France

A story of shelter, generosity and welcome--and a courageous leap into a new life.


In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia found themselves disillusioned with city life. Overwhelmed by long commutes, they stumbled upon a book about Prespa, Greece--a remote corner of Europe filled with stone villages, snow-capped mountains and wildlife, which they would soon call home.


Prespa is a crossroads. Where three countries come together around two huge lakes, where limestone collides with granite and heat-pulsing Mediterranean ecosystems meet their colder, Balkan relatives. Here, languages, wartime histories and rivers converge, and pelicans, bears and people leave their footprints on the water's edge--next to unexploded bombs.


Lifelines is not only the tale of a courageous leap into a new life, but of seasons punctuated by unforgettable encounters, from a stare-down with a bear surrounded by spring wildflowers to a deep-winter meeting with fourteen wrens sheltering above a frozen doorway. And into this place encircled by mountains, Julian seamlessly weaves an intricate web of stories - of conflict and possibility; of refuge lost and found; of the wild lifelines that connect us all as we move through the world seeking a home.

Author: Julian Hoffman
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 05/12/2026
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781567928419


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2026
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2026
Foreword 04/27/2026

About the Author

Julian Hoffman has lived beside the Prespa lakes in the mountains of northern Greece for the past quarter of a century. His previous book, Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places, was a Highly Commended Finalist for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation 2020 and a Royal Geographical Society 'Book of the Year'. His debut, The Small Heart of Things, was chosen by Terry Tempest Williams as the winner of the 2012 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction. It also won a National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature and was a finalist for both the Foreword Book of the Year in Ecology and Environment and the ASLE Book Award for Literature and Environment.


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