This web log was conceived to serve two complementary purposes: to promote across the English-language blogosphere an awareness of and appreciation for developments in contemporary Estonia, and to serve as a real-time supplement to my book, Back on the Map: Adventures in Newly Independent Estonia.
With a focus on the second purpose I’m preparing to roll out, in the “back pages” of this blog, a series of supplementary Back on the Map “bonus features”. Here are a few of the items on their way:
- The playlist: a list of the songs that were popular in Estonia in 1992 and that served as the soundtrack to my adventures
- The album: photographs and mementos from my stay in Tallinn and travels around the former Soviet Union
- The lost chapters: adventures in Russia and Lithuania that didn’t quite make it into the book
Stay tuned; details will be posted soon!
