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The author journeys into remote northern highlands, traveling with mountaineers and gendarmes to visit hidden tribes and prehistoric sites. Through on-the-spot reportage and photographs she records mountain trails, household life, marriage customs, blood feuds, guardian spirits, songs, and local legends that link ancient origins to contemporary loyalties. Encounters include hospitable villagers, chiefs, bandits, village councils, and church services, while political tensions and volunteer fighters surface in town life. The narrative blends travel anecdote, ethnographic observation, and historical tale to convey daily routines, ritual law, landscape, and the uneasy interaction of long-standing tradition with emergent national order.
The cover has been modified slightly and is placed in the public domain.
In a few cases, obvious errors or omissions in punctuation have been corrected.
Page 43: “kept out bodies warm” changed to “kept our bodies warm”
Page 119: “a freize of living bodies” changed to “a frieze of living bodies”
Page 340: “blood ame on the knuckles” changed to “blood came on the knuckles”
The spelling of Spiro Koleka’s last name has been corrected.