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The fracture zone : a return to the Balkans / Simon Winchester.

Title
The fracture zone : a return to the Balkans / Simon Winchester.
Author
Winchester, Simon.
Publication
New York : HarperCollins, c1999.

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Description
xi, 255 p. : maps; 25 cm.
Summary
Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with the people who live there, Winchester offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex issues at work in this chaotic region.
Subject
  • Winchester, Simon > Travel > Balkan Peninsula
  • Winchester, Simon
  • 1998-1999
  • Balkan Peninsula > Description and travel
  • Balkan Peninsula > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Maps on lining pages.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Encounters at a water meadow -- Meeting with a Turkish gentleman -- To the "land of the Osmanlees" -- Looking for a Sarajevo rose -- Fortess by the sea -- Western appraoaches -- Lifting of the gate -- Sound and the fury -- City so sublime.
ISBN
0060195746
OCLC
  • 42724950
  • SCSB-10273635
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library