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The fracture zone : a return to the Balkans / Simon Winchester.

Title
  1. The fracture zone : a return to the Balkans / Simon Winchester.
Published by
  1. New York : HarperCollins, c1999.
Author
  1. Winchester, Simon.

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Description
  1. xi, 255 p. : maps; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with the people who live there, Winchester offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex issues at work in this chaotic region.
Subject
  1. Winchester, Simon > Travel > Balkan Peninsula
  2. Winchester, Simon
  3. 1998-1999
  4. Balkan Peninsula > Description and travel
  5. Balkan Peninsula > History
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. Encounters at a water meadow -- Meeting with a Turkish gentleman -- To the "land of the Osmanlees" -- Looking for a Sarajevo rose -- Fortess by the sea -- Western appraoaches -- Lifting of the gate -- Sound and the fury -- City so sublime.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Maps on lining pages.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain