Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey through Yugoslavia in 1937
by Rebecca West
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is an 1,181-page travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941. The book gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography, and the significance of Nazism, structured about her six week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937. It made the Random House Modern Library list of the best 100 non-fiction books of the 20th century. The writer Larry McMurtry says in an essay, "... there are only a few great travel books. Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is one...".
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- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1225E062
- Title
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey through Yugoslavia in 1937
- Author
- Rebecca West
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition, 2nd Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1942
- Size
- 6.25 x 8.75 inches (15.5 x 22.5
- Keywords
- Yugoslavia, Jugoslavija, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, The Balkans, Travel_Exploration/Europe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel: Europe;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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