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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia

by Rebecca West
$8.90
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia

Insightful journey through pre-war Yugoslavian tapestry.

If you're intrigued by the complex interplay of history, politics, and culture, "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" could offer you a profound understanding of a vanished world. Rebecca West's detailed prose delves deep into the heart of Yugoslavia just before WWII, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in the Balkans or historical travel literature.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia

by Rebecca West
$8.90
ISBN: 9780140063554
Authors: Rebecca West
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 1982-11-18
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics, Travel, History
Related Topics: Historical, Politics, History, European History, Travelogue, Biography, Memoir
Goodreads rating: 4.21
(rated by 2539 readers)

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Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. What makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire crossed with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. West visited Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936. What she saw there affected her so much that she had to return—partly, she writes, because it most resembled "the country I have always seen between sleeping and waking," and partly because "it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured." Black Lamb is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it is West following that strand of wool: through countless historical digressions; through winding narratives of battles, slavery, and assassinations; through Shakespeare and Augustine and into the very heart of human frailty. West wrote on the brink of World War II, when she was "already convinced of the inevitability of the second Anglo-German war." The resulting book is colored by that impending conflict, and by West's search for universals amid the complex particulars of Balkan history. In the end, she
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Insightful journey through pre-war Yugoslavian tapestry.

If you're intrigued by the complex interplay of history, politics, and culture, "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" could offer you a profound understanding of a vanished world. Rebecca West's detailed prose delves deep into the heart of Yugoslavia just before WWII, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in the Balkans or historical travel literature.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.