To go with AFP story by Darko DURIDANSKI and David STOUT
In this photograph taken on July 11, 2022, a visitor looks through a volume in the library of Stevo Stepanovski in the village of Babino in western Macedonia - Most people packed up and left the remote North Macedonia village of Babino years ago. But Stevo Stepanovski and his remarkable collection of 20,000 books passed down in his family from generation to generation stayed put in his almost abandoned valley. The library began with Stepanovski's great-grandfather who was given his first tranche of books by passing Ottoman soldiers in the late 19th century. (Photo by Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP)