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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
 
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by Rebecca West (Author), Trevor Royle (Introduction)
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Geoff Dyer
"As a book about Yugoslavia it’s a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"Impossible to put down, both timeless and of its time. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Travel Book Ever Written, 6 Nov 1998
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This book is, without a doubt, the greatest travel book ever written. Encylopaedic in its depth and scope, it is the vastly readable account of Dame Rebecca West's pre-war journeys through the Balkans. But it is more than a mere travelogue--it says much about the human predicament in general. It is impossible to understand the current problems in the former Yugoslavia without this book.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read if your traveling in the Balkans, 21 Dec 1999
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After reading some of the history of the Balkans, all other authors recommended this book, and after reading it I can see why. It is the format others try to obtain. She keeps the reader waiting for the next corner in not only her travels but in history. It puts into perspective todays turmoil.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Mind of the Balkan, 18 Feb 2001
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Never before and never after have the mind of this tortured region - the Balkan - been thus penetrated: with such passionate, humane precision, with such eloquence, with such empathy and such conviction. A classic, if ever there was any, a masterpiece without a doubt. It is as fresh as yesterday's news and as ancient as the monasteries it describes. It is an eternal work, a must for Balkan afficionados, a work of scholarship and love. Influenced by it, I wrote this (in my 'After the Rain - How the West Lost the East'): 'The Balkans is the unconscious of the world...It is here that the repressed memories of history, its traumas and fears and images reside. It is here that the psychodynamics of humanity - the tectonic clash between Rome and Byzantium, West and East, Judeo-Christianity and Islam - is still easily discernible.' Thank you, Rebecca West. Sam Vaknin, author of 'After the Rain - How the West Lost the East'.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What a fantastic book!
A middle-class englishwoman and her banker husband travel round Yugoslavia in the 1930s. Sounds dull, but it's actually one of the most engrossing books I have read for a long... Read more
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