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The Blaze in the Balkans
Selected Writings 1903-1941
The Blaze in the Balkans
Selected Writings 1903-1941
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Description
Edith Durham is best known for her classic travel books about the Balkans. However, she was also a passionate, articulate and well-informed commentator on the twists and turns of Balkan politics and the machinations of the Great Powers. The pieces in this collection of her writings from the early half of the twentieth century remind us of the many connections between Britain and the Balkans over recent centuries - of Tennyson, Disraeli, Lord Fitzmaurice, Aubrey Herbert and Margaret Hasluck. With its wide geographical sweep, the book offers a fair picture of the Balkans in the early twentieth century: Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Serbia are all represented - their dangers and wonders, ugly brutality and startling beauty, history, custom, geography and politics. The anthology offers vivid pictures of Balkan locations which will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in modern Balkan history.
Table of Contents
The Blaze in the Balkans
My Golden Sisters: a Macedonian Picture
Balkan Sketches - What use to make a fuss?
Balkan Sketches - Life is Cheap
As Others See It: a Sketch in Old Servia
Albanian and Montenegrin Folklore
Hil
The Soul of the War
Travels in Trueland: an Ecclesiastical Episode
Ritual nudity in Europe
The Serbs As Seen in Their National Songs
Because of the Berlin Congress: a True Tale, Dedicated to the Drawers of Frontiers
King Nikola of Montenegro
Albania: Oldest and Quaintest of Balkan Peoples
A Bird Tradition in the West of the Balkan Peninsula
Head-hunting in the Balkans
The Balkans as a Danger Point
Tribes of Northern Albania
A Very Free Press
The Making of a Saint
Albania
Product details
| Published | 02 Apr 2014 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 232 |
| ISBN | 9781848857100 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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