ContentsAn Introduction to Four Centuries of Balkan Travel Note on the Text Part One1600-1914Henry Blount, from A Voyage into the Levant (Bosnia) Edward Brown, from A Brief Account of Some Travels (Croatia) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, from The Turkish Embassy Letters (Bulgaria) Elizabeth Craven, from A Journey through the Crimea (Romania) J.C. Hobhouse Broughton, from A Journey through Albania (Albania) Edward Lear, from Journals of a Landscape Painter (Albania) E.F. Knight, from Albania (Albania) Henry Barkley, from Between the Danube and the Black Sea (Bulgaria) Ardern G. Hulme-Beaman, from Twenty Years in the Near East (Serbia) Emily Strangford, from Report on the Bulgarian Peasant Relief Fund (Bulgaria) Alfred Wright, from Adventures in Servia (Serbia) Arthur J. Evans, from Illyrian Letters (Montenegro) Mary Adelaide Walker, from Untrodden Paths in Roumania (Romania) Florence K. Berger, from A Winter in the City of Pleasure (Romania) Edith Durham, from High Albania (Albania) Frederick Moore, from The Balkan Trail (Macedonia) Joyce Cary, from Memoir of the Bobotes (Albania) Part Two1914-1939Rebecca West, from Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Bosnia) Ellen Chivers Davies, from A Farmer in Serbia (Serbia) Fortier Jones, from With Serbia into Exile (Kosovo) Flora Sandes, from An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army (Albania) Rose Wilder Lane, from The Peaks of Shala (Albania) Philip Thornton, from Ikons and Oxen (Bulgaria) D.J. Hall, from Romanian Furrow (Romania) Walter Starkie, from Raggle-Taggle (Romania) Olive Lodge, from Peasant Life in Jugoslavia (Kosovo) George Sava, from Donkey Serenade (Bulgaria) Bernard Newman, from The Blue Danube (Romania) Patrick Leigh Fermor, from Between the Woods and the Water (Romania) Paul Edmonds, from To the Land of the Eagle (Albania) David Footman, from Balkan Holiday (Croatia) R.H. Bruce Lockhart, from Guns or Butter (Bulgaria) Rebecca West, from Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Slovenia) Part Three1939-2000Fitzroy Maclean, from Eastern Approaches (Bosnia) David Smiley, from Albanian Assignment (Albania) Louisa Rayner, from Women in a Village (Serbia) M. Philips Price, from Through the Iron-Laced Curtain (Bulgaria) John Gunther, from Behind Europe's Curtain (Serbia) Leslie Gardiner, from Curtain Calls (Bulgaria) Eric Newby, from On the Shores of the Mediterranean (Albania) Mark Thompson, from A Paper House (Croatia) June Emerson, from Albania (Albania) Brian Hall, from Stealing from a Deep Place (Bulgaria) David Selbourne, from Death of the Dark Hero (Romania) Dave Rimmer, from Once upon a Time in the East (Romania) Robert Carver, from The Accursed Mountains (Albania) Isabel Fonseca, from Bury Me Standing (Albania) Peter Maass, from Love Thy Neighbor (Bosnia) Ed Vulliamy, from Seasons in Hell (Bosnia) Simon Winchester, from The Fracture Zone (Kosovo) Will Myer, from People of the Storm God (Macedonia) Further Reading Acknowledgements