Sarajevo — Wild Garlic, Copper & Coffee in the Bazaar

Five May nights in Sarajevo, where coffee is poured from a džezva, copper is hammered in the old bazaar, and the bells and calls of three faiths can sound within a single hour.

In the beech woods above the city, Allium ursinum — wild garlic, ramsons — carpets the spring ground. The chapter moves between the city's dense human layering and the green foraging of the hills that ring it.