![]() ![]() veteran reporter, travel writer, and essayist Robert D. In the tradition of Rebecca West and Paul Theroux. Yet few of us truly comprehend the nature of the blood feuds that have recently been rekindled. Here is where twentieth~century history began~with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo and where it will likely end. Like an old photograph found suddenly in a dusty attic, the Balkan Peninsula is once again back at center stage. ![]() Only in this way could the present become comprehensible. On the road, when I met people, I asked them always about the past. Thus, I developed an obsession with medieval churches and monasteries, with old books and old photographs. Yet their expressions remained fixed and distant, like dusty statuary. ~ This was a time~capsule world, a dim stage upon which people raged, spilled blood, experienced visions and ecstasies. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. ![]()
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