Bracewell (History, University College London) has assembled over 100 examples of travel writing about Europe, written by east Europeans over the past 450 years. Ranging from pilgrimage diaries from t
In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the Hab
In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive - traits that serv
In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place traveled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive - traits that serve
Bracewell (history, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, U. College London) and Drace-Francis (history, U. of Liverpool) and their 15 contributors have written a study of travel writing publi
The 12 essays comprise a second volume to emerge from a research project on East European travel writing 1550-2000 carried out at the University of London; the first, in 2007, was a bibliography. Stud