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A travel narrative that follows an English-speaking narrator's journey across the Balkan borderlands and principal cities, recording landscapes, markets, monasteries, and the people encountered. It interweaves eyewitness sketches of urban life, religious and ethnic communities, diplomatic and military presences, and the shadow of insurgency and political violence. Rural routes, mountain passes, and frontier bridges are described alongside portraits of local guides, soldiers, brigands, and missionaries. Chapters map a progression from border crossings to capital cities and contested towns, combining descriptive travelogue, reportage on nationalist tensions, and anecdotal cultural observation, accompanied by illustrations and a regional map.

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Title: The Balkan Trail

Author: Frederick Ferdinand Moore

Illustrator: Gilbert Holiday

Release date: August 16, 2020 [eBook #62947]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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THE BALKAN TRAIL


From a Drawing by Gilbert Holiday.

‘NOBODY BLUNDERED.’

[See page 110.


THE BALKAN TRAIL

BY
FREDERICK MOORE

WITH 62 ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1906

[All rights reserved]


TO MY FRIEND

I. N. F.