Curtain Calls; Travels in Albania, Romania and Bulgaria
GARDINER, Leslie.
From Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 12 July 2019
From Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 12 July 2019
About this Item
1976. Description: Black and white illustrated DJ over black cloth. Language: English. Book Condition> Good: The structure of the book is in very good condition with only minor wear to extreme corner tips. However, there is underlining of some words to 29 pages. See photos for examples. DJ Condition> Near Fine: Minor chip to lower rear corner on inside flap. Book Resume: Extract from DJ "Behind the Iron Curtain seventy million people, all of them the heirs of ancient civilizations, inhabit the six countries between Vienna and the Black Sea The author has been quietly travelling these parts on and off for the past 15 years and introduces them to us in a terse, springy, humorous manner all his own He presents Albania via a weird modern-dress performance of Boheme in Durre (the ancient Dyrrachium) and the village school Romania - that 'raffish, cocky, cringing, cynical and enigmatic nation with the largest gipsy population in Europe' - is interpreted to us through some surprising scenes of modern life in the Danube delta, and through the eyes of the romantic, ill-starred British-born Marie of Romania, queen and novelist In Bulgaria, least sophisticated of the three, he sleeps the night out in a rose orchard and has his heart broken by an official lady guide in Sofia Six or more sketches on each suffice to give a fair picture of these countries, caught up today in the more or less agonising process of modernisation". PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required. Seller Inventory # 6965
Bibliographic Details
Title: Curtain Calls; Travels in Albania, Romania ...
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1976, London
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition.
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