The Struggle for Scutari (Turk, Slav, and Albanian): New edition, edited and introduced by Robert Elsie (Albanian Studies) - Softcover

Durham, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517209501 ISBN 13: 9781517209506

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

“The Struggle for Scutari,” originally published in 1914, was the fourth book of the English traveller and writer Edith Durham (1863-1944). She had already made a name for herself with “Through the Lands of the Serb” (1904), “The Burden of the Balkans” (1905) and especially “High Albania” (1909). This book is perhaps Durham’s most ambitious piece of writing. It is the fruit of her longest stay in the Balkans (mostly in Montenegro and Albania) – three and a half years from April 1910 to September 1913. “The Struggle for Scutari” deals with the border conflict, and then with the bloody war waged by the tiny Kingdom of Montenegro under King Nikola upon a crumbling Ottoman Empire, of which Albania was still a part. Caught in the middle of the conflict, between a rock and a hard place, were the Albanian highland tribes that Edith Durham knew and loved. “The Struggle for Scutari” is not only a reliable source of history for the period between 1910 and 1913, based as it is on first-hand experience, but also facilitates an understanding of events in the Balkans up to this very day.

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The British writer Mary Edith Durham (1863-1944) travelled much in the western Balkans in the period before the First World War. She is the author of seven books.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1517209501
• ISBN 13: 9781517209506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Elsie Robert