Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
by West, Rebecca
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- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0140188479
- ISBN 13
- 9780140188479
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Synopsis
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is an 1,181-page travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941. The book gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography, and the significance of Nazism, structured about her six week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937. It made the Random House Modern Library list of the best 100 non-fiction books of the 20th century. The writer Larry McMurtry says in an essay, "... there are only a few great travel books. Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is one...".
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- Bookseller
- The Book Escape (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 234454
- Title
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
- Author
- West, Rebecca
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0140188479
- ISBN 13
- 9780140188479
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
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