Black lambs and grey falcons : women travellers in the Balkans / edited by John B. Allcock & Antonia Young
[Bradford, England] : Bradford University Press, 1991. 1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #428262
ISBN: 1851430474
Physical description; xxv, 216 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm. Notes; Outgrowth of a conference held at Bradford University in April, 1987. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Black lambs and grey falcons : outward and inward frontiers / John Bl Allcock and Antonia Young -- Two victorian ladies and Bosnian realities, 1892-1875 : G.M. MacKenzie and A.P. Irby / Omer Hadziselimovic -- Edith Durham, Traveller and publicist / John Hodgson -- Edith Durham as a collector / June Hill -- Emily Balch : Balkan traveller, peace worker and nobel laureate / Elinor M. Despalatovic and Joel Halpern -- British medical women in Serbia during and after the first World War / Monica Krippner -- Captain Flora Sandes : a case study in the social construction of gender in a Serbian context / Julie Wheelwright -- Rose Wilder Lane, 1886-1968 / Antonia Young -- Rebecca West, Gerda and the sense of process / Felicity Rosslyn -- Louisa Rayner : an englishwoman's experiences in wartime Yugoslavia / Anne Kay -- Mercia MacDermott : a woman of the frontier / Diane Waller -- An anthropologist in the village / Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern -- Bucks, brides and useless baggage : women's quest for a role in their Balkan travels / Dea Birkett. Constructing "the Balkans" / John B. Allcock -- Women travellers in the Balkans : a bibliographical guide / Jennifer Finder. Subjects; Women travelers Balkan Peninsula ; Congresses. Travel. Women travelers. Women travelers Balkan Peninsula. Voyages and travels. World War, 1914-1918 Women. World War, 1939-1945 Women. Women explorers History. Travelers. Women. Eastern Europe.
Price: €18.00