Lyubomir Ivanov

“ Special thanks go to Boris Bekyarov and Robert Rowlands whose financial support has helped make this project possible.
I wish to express my thanks to Nusha for her company, despite the fact that she skipped my Stanley lecture, like she had skipped her Deception Island and Hannah Point landings in Antarctica before. I trust she enjoyed our time in the Falklands, judging from her enquiries about possible future trips down south. ”

“ Of the people to whom I am grateful, Robert naturally comes first. I extend cordial thanks to him and to all the Islanders I met during my stay in the Falklands, for their friendly hospitality as well as for the incredible experience of seeing a country in the making – something one might have probably felt if visiting the United States a couple of centuries ago. ”

“ Let me proceed with some acknowledgements though, lest this preface grows into travel notes featuring also ship wrecks and hulks, gaucho corrals, war monuments and cemeteries, minefields, penguins and upland geese, motorcycle-shepherded sheep etc. ”