At the gates of the East : British travel writers on Bosnia and Herzegovina from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries / edited with an introduction and notes by Omer Hadžiselimović.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hadžiselimović, Omer.

Series:

East European monographs ; no. 572.

East European monographs ; no. 572

Standardized Title:

Na vratima Istoka. English.

Language:

Croatian

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--Description and travel.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Travelers--Great Britain.

Travelers' writings, English--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Travelers' writings, English.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 492 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder [Colo.] : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Bosnia has left comparatively few written records of its culture, and this book attempts to fill that gap with an anthology of British travel accounts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ranging from the earliest British travel writings in the sixteenth-century to the beginning of the twentieth-century, Hadziselimovic traces the British fascination with fictions of Bosnia as "exotic, " "distant, " and "oriental." In addition to revealing the attitudes of the British toward the Balkans, this book discusses how these travel narratives may hold clues to the roots of the recent war in Bosnia.

Notes:

Slightly revised English version of the original Serbo-Croatian publication.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-480) and index.

ISBN:

0880334703

OCLC:

47983380

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