Refugees and migrants wait to be rescued from an overcrowded boat by crew members from the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) Phoenix vessel on May 18, 2017 off Lampedusa, Italy. Chris McGrath / Getty Images
Refugees and migrants wait to be rescued from an overcrowded boat by crew members from the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) Phoenix vessel on May 18, 2017 off Lampedusa, Italy. Chris McGrath / GettShow more
Lampedusa: Gateway to Europe tells of stolen and scarred lives in Europe’s graveyard
Far from politics, the reality of migrants’ harrowing, desperate journeys at
the hands of mercenary traffickers are laid bare in this book, finds Nick March