In the spring and summer of 1996 Robert Carver made a remarkable journey through remote Albania. He travelled by bus, by foot, by mule and horse, staying with Albanians and sharing their grindingly poor lives. He met Vlach shepherds and village intellectuals, Tirana film-makers and Bektashi dervish babas, ex-Communist Special Forces officers and juvenile heroin smugglers, missionaries with jeeps and light planes, and ex-prisoners of Enver Hoxha who had spent 45 years in the Albanian gulag. His journey in this mysterious mountain land is recounted in this lively travel narrative, involving high adventure, danger and comedy alike.
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Hodder & Stoughton General Division
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 159 mm
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978-0-7195-5459-9 (9780719554599)
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Part I Into Toskeria: Albanian approaches - Psarades; optimistic massages; enemy behind your head - Voskopoja and Lin; surviving whirlwinds - Korca; the Grammos Mountains - Korca to Gjrokastra; of ruins and assassins - Gjirokastra and Butrinti; tales of the black market - Tepelena; old communists - Gjirokastra; enter the secret police - Gjirokastra to Tirana; diplomatic initiatives - Tirana; arrested by secret police - Tirana; Natasha and the General - Tirana; death in the north - Tirana. Part II Into Ghegeria: night belongs to the Djinn - Peshkopi; wolves, bears and high passes to Serbia - Radomire; pistol practice - Peshkopi; bandit country - Kukes, Fierza, Bajram Curri; trouble with bodyguards - Bajram Curri, Dragobi, Valbona; the accursed mountains - Lake Gashit, Tropoja, etc.; honour feuds and the code of blood - Shkodra; Albania adrift - Shkodra; flying Dada airways - Tirana, Athens, London; the dance of the Kalashnikovs.
