Record details

• ISBN: 0312087012 :
• ISBN: 9780312087012
• Physical Description: xxvii, 307 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Thomas Dunne book"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 communsit 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.

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Subject:

Balkan Peninsula > Description and travel.
Balkan Peninsula > History.
Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- > Travel > Balkan Peninsula.