Albania and Montenegro, the Dinaric Alps

READING GUIDE Albania and Montenegro, The Dinaric Alps

Here is a brief selection of favorite, new and hard-to-find books, prepared for your journey.

Essential Reading Package Gizi Map

Montenegro Map Mark Mazower BLK101 | 2016 | 1 pages | MAP The Balkans, A Short History This handy full-color road map covers Montenegro BLK28 | 2002 | 188 pages | PAPER and its coast at a scale of 250,000. With eloquence and clarity, Mazower addresses $14.95 issues of geography, nationalism and nation in Marco Polo this indispensable survey. $16.00 Montenegro Marco Polo Guide BLK199 | 2014 | 132 pages | PAPER Edward Lear This unique pocket guide is full of insider tips on Edward Lear in Albania, Journals of a where to stay, eat, drink, and sight-see. Includes a Landscape Painter in the Balkans handy street atlas and a pull-out map. BLK151 | 2008 | 225 pages | HARD COVER $9.99 With vivid insights into the environment, culture and politics of the period, Lear's wondrously Rudolf Abraham illustrated journals of paint a captivating portrait of The Mountains of Montenegro this wild corner of Europe in the 1840s. BLK178 | 2015 | 256 pages | PAPER $49.95 This handy pocket-sized guidebook contains detailed Gillian Gloyer route descriptions for 15 day and multi-day treks in the Bradt Guide Albania spectacular Dinaric Alps. $27.95 BLK66 | 2015 | 288 pages | PAPER A compact overview of Albania, its history, wildlife and Rebecca West, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) major attractions. Geared for the independent traveler, it Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey also includes maps and practical information. Through Yugoslavia $26.99 BLK04 | 2007 | 1181 pages | PAPER Freytag & Berndt First published in 1941, this monumental work explores the complex history of Yugoslavia, its heroes, politics and Albania Map culture. It's a big, challenging book -- some call it the best BLK78 | 2015 | 2 pages | MAP ever written on the Balkans. $28.00 A detailed country map at a scale of 1:400,000. $14.95 Arthur John Evans Buy Package Illyrian Letters, A Revised Selection of Correspondence from the Illyrian Provinces of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, Alban BLK190 | 2013 | 290 pages | PAPER Also Recommended Classical archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans travelled extensively in Bosnia during the 1870s and eventually Freytag & Berndt returned as a correspondent for the Manchester Balkans & Southeast Europe Map Guardian. These letters not only introduce the reader EUR147 | 2009 | 1 pages | MAP to a tumultuous moment in the political evolution of the Balkans but also offer glimpses of daily life, This nicely detailed European regional map architecture, antiquity and custom. (1:2,000,000) shows the route of the Danube $35.99 from Budapest to the Black Sea. Tim Judah $14.95 MapLink Kosovo, What Everyone Needs to Know BLK133 | 2008 | 192 pages | PAPER Kosovo Map Judah traces the geography, history and identity of not EUR101 | | 1 pages | MAP just tiny Kosovo but of the Western Balkans in this A detailed, full color map of Kosovo at a scale of clear, direct guide. 1:250,000. With shaded relief, roadways and index. $16.95 $8.95 Dennis Hupchick

Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans BLK41 | 2001 | 128 pages | PAPER The changing borders and complex history of the Balkans are clearly and concisely shown through 50 double-page maps and accompanying essays, organized chronologically. $32.99

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Albania and Montenegro, The Dinaric Alps

Miranda Vickers, James Pettifer The Slavenka Drakulic

Miranda Vickers traces the history of the Albanian These short essays capture the absurdity, struggle people from the Ottoman period to the formation of and day-to-day reality of being a woman in the Albanian Communist Party. Newly revised for this Yugoslavia under communism. Drakulic is an award- paperback edition, "The Albanians" has now been winning Croatian journalist and novelist. updated to cover the crisis in Kosovo that led to the $15.99

first "Western" war in Europe since 1945. $35.00 Ismail Kadare Broken April Misha Glenny BLK70 | 1998 | 248 pages | PAPER The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the In this best-known novel by the contemporary Great Powers, 1804-2011 Albanian writer, a bereaved mountaineer and a BLK32 | 2012 | 752 pages | PAPER young anthropologist couple both wrestle with the Longtime central European correspondent for the age-old traditions of the high plateau. BBC based in Vienna, Glenny (The Fall of Yugoslavia) $14.95 poignantly challenges the role of the Great Powers in Starling Lawrence this survey, newly revised and updated to cover developments in the region through 2011. Montenegro, A Novel $26.00 BLK08 | 2006 | 350 pages | PAPER Laura Silber, Allan Little Steeped in atmosphere, this compelling tale of intrigue Yugoslavia, Death of a Nation set in turn-of-the-century Montenegro evokes the tangled politics of the region -- Muslim, Turkish and BLK03 | 1997 | 403 pages | PAPER British. Lawrence follows the adventures of reluctant Called "one of the finest volumes to come out of the British spy Harwell Auberon from the Adriatic to war" by the New York Times, this book combines mountain villages, capturing the essences of the eyewitness reports, political commentary and people and the land. documentary photographs to elucidate the origins $15.99 and aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia. George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron $17.00 Selected Poems Robin Cormack EUR400 | 2006 | 830 pages | PAPER Byzantine Art This excellent selection of the Romantic poet's work MDE64 | 2000 | 248 pages | PAPER includes a complete version of Childe Harold's A scholarly introduction and survey of the art of Pilgrimage, Lord Byron's classic, epic poem about a the Byzantine empire in the Oxford History of Art. world-weary traveler -- in part, an account of With 127 illustrations, 82 in full color. youthful adventures in the Balkans. $29.95 $17.00

Robert D. Kaplan Ivo Andric, Lovette F. Edwards (Translator)

Balkan Ghosts, A Journey through The Bridge on the Drina BLK59 | 1977 | 318 pages | PAPER History BLK02 | 2005 | 307 pages | PAPER Kaplan interweaves history, art and culture with his These linked stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author travels through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and capture the history and complexity of Christian and Greece in this regional portrait. Named one of the Muslim relations during Ottoman occupation. Hewn of best of 1993 by the New York Times. stone, the bridge dividing the town of Visegrad was $20.00 Andric's inspiration. $15.00 Lloyd Jones Ismail Kadare Biografi, A Traveler's Tale BLK16 The Siege | 1994 | 274 pages | PAPER BLK136 | 2010 | 336 pages | PAPER This insightful, partially fictional portrait of Albania, originally published in 1994, mixes real and imagined Kadare's poweful novel dramatizes the siege on a events, mostly concerned with the Lloyd's search for Christian fortress in the mountains of Albania by the a surgically altered dentist who doubled for Albania's Ottoman army -- a bloody, complex struggle peopled dictator at public events. A marvelous writer, Lloyd is with memorable characters. author of Mister Pip $15.00 $21.95

Edith Durham

High Albania, A Victorian Traveller's Balkan Odyssey BLK177 | 2009 | 224 pages | PAPER First published in 1909, this classic account captures the customs and society of the highlands of northern Albania, the land of the living past. $24.95