Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia by West, Rebecca, Publication date Topics Eastern question (Balkan), Yugoslavia -- Description and travel, Yugoslavia -- History -- , Serbia. pages including the Epilogue but not the Bibliography! I read this book for months (I believe I started it in July). Black Lamb and Grey Falcon records a journey taken by West and her husband Paul, a banker, through the former Yugoslavia in /5(). Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel memoir by British author Rebecca West. Over more than a thousand pages, West recounts six weeks spent in the former Yugoslavia in , interweaving her travel narrative with a thorough history and ethnography of the region, in an attempt to “show the past side by side with the present it created.”.
"Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" bears the travel-book subtitle of "A Journey Through Yugoslavia," and it follows with consummate success the travel-book formula of history and description and characterization on a thread of personal experience. But it is safe to say that as a travel book it is unique. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans, and the uneasy relationship. Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a. "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon bears the travel-book subtitle of A Journey Through Yugoslavia, and it follows with consummate success the travel-book formula of history and description and characterization on a thread of personal experience. But it is safe to say that as a travel book it is unique.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel memoir by British author Rebecca West. Over more than a thousand pages, West recounts six weeks spent in the former Yugoslavia in , interweaving her travel narrative with a thorough history and ethnography of the region, in an attempt to “show the past side by side with the present it created.”. A brilliant and versatile novelist, critic, essayist, and political commentator, West's greatest literary achievement is perhaps her travel diary, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through. pages including the Epilogue but not the Bibliography! I read this book for months (I believe I started it in July). Black Lamb and Grey Falcon records a journey taken by West and her husband Paul, a banker, through the former Yugoslavia in
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