The European Tribe

In 1984 the novelist Caryl Phillips set off on a journey across Europe in an attempt to clarify the fundamental question of his identity - as he put it "to come to terms with what it is like to feel both of, and not of, Europe". In a series of snapshots - part travelogue, part autobiography, part polemic - the author gives an account of a journey of the heart and mind as well as of Europe today. This new edition includes an account of the radical and profound changes which have taken place in Europe over the last eight years.