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Balkan ghosts : a journey through history
- Title
- Balkan ghosts : a journey through history / Robert D. Kaplan.
- Author
- Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DR16 .K36 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxvii, 307 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- Author's account of his travels through the Balkan countries and a history of the region.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- travelog (performed works genre)
- travelers’ writings.
- Travel writing.
- History.
- Récits de voyages.
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: Saints, terrorists, blood, and holy water -- pt. 1. Yugoslavia : historical overtures: Croatia : "Just so they could go to heaven" ; Old Serbia and Albania : Balkan "West Bank" ; Macedonia : "A hand thirsting towards the realm of the stars" ; The white city and its prophet -- pt. 2. Romania : Latin passion play: Athenee Palace, Bucharest ; The Danube's bitter end ; Moldavia : "Conditioned to hate" ; The land beyond Dracula's castle : the painted monastaries of Bucovina ; Transylvanian voices ; Transylvanian tale : the Pied Piper's children go back to Hamelin ; Last glimpses : Timisoara and Bucharest -- pt. 3. Bulgaria : tales from communist Byzantium: "The warmth of each other's bodies" ; The price of friendship ; The bad and the good -- pt. 4. Greece : Western mistress, Eastern bride: Farewell to Salonika ; "Teach me, Zorba, teach me to dance" ; The secret history -- Epilogue: The road to Adrianople.
- ISBN
- 0312087012
- 9780312087012
- LCCN
- 92043300
- OCLC
- ocm27107919
- 27107919
- SCSB-1977856
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library