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Moore, Frederick.
The Balkan Trail.
Publisher: Smith, Elder, & Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1906
Stock Code: 15475
First edition. Octavo, pp., [viii], 296, plus tissue-guarded frontispiece, 47 photographic plates, and folding map of the Balkans, as called for. Publisher’s emerald-green buckram; titled in gilt to spine; white end-papers. Corners a touch rubbed; binding otherwise strong and square, the cloth clean and bright. Light scattered foxing to prelims and to end-papers; otherwise internally clean. A very good or better copy. A thrilling account of travels through Balkans written in novelistic style. The Balkans were an exceptionally unstable region at the turn of the twentieth century. In encounters with anarchists, nationalists, and minoritised peoples, the author captures the spirit of a tense region which would soon be the tinderbox for the First World War. £250.00