Homeland II – Albania’s Hidden Gems

Homeland II takes Fation Plaku off the big summits and into the corners of Albania most visitors never reach: glacial lakes still ringed with snow in June, high pastures, valleys with no road in. Plaku reached the top of Everest in 2012, on the 100th anniversary of Albania’s independence, and has spent more than twenty years photographing his own country’s wild places. This book collects the ones he calls its hidden gems. It belongs on a coffee table, or with anyone planning a first trip into the Albanian mountains.