The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania - Hardcover

Carver, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719554594 ISBN 13: 9780719554599

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

Praise for The Accursed Mountains:

‘One of the most exciting travel books for a generation’
Spectator

‘...enviable writing skills, fresh horrors on every page’
The Times

About the Author:

Robert Carver was brought up in Cyprus, Turkey and India. Educated at the Scuola Medici, Florence, and Durham University, where he read Oriental Studies and Politics, he taught English in a maximum security gaol in Australia, and worked as a BBC World Service reporter in Eastern Europe and the Levant. Four of his plays have been broadcast by the BBC. He has written for the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph and other papers.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0719554594
• ISBN 13: 9780719554599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400