Daniel Metcalfe graduated from the University of Oxford as a scholar in Classics. His first book, Out of Steppe: The Lost Peoples of Central Asia, was shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award and the Banff Mountain Book award. He has written for The Economist, Guardian, Financial Times, Vice News, Condé Nast Traveler, Foreign Policy, Prospect and the New Statesman. He speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Persian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, and is an occasional Persian/Dari interpreter for the EU Agency for Asylum.  He lives in Málaga, Spain.

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