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Summary
A combination of accounts by famous travelers, this collection brings together For The first time, stories from the war, crusader knights, and hauntingly macabre traditional tales.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Historical Introduction: A Brief History of Croatia | p. 11 |
| Travel | p. 30 |
| From Black Lamb and Grey Falcon | p. 33 |
| From Camp Life and Sport in Dalmatia and the Herzegovina | p. 41 |
| From Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot During the Insurrection of the Summer of 1875 | p. 46 |
| From Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | p. 56 |
| People | p. 63 |
| From Travels in Dalmatia | p. 70 |
| The Coward | p. 76 |
| How the Peasants Bought Wisdom | p. 92 |
| From Where the Turk Trod: A Journey to Sarajevo with a Slavonic Mussulman | p. 94 |
| From Noble Essences: A Book of Characters | p. 103 |
| From A Paper House | p. 120 |
| From Tito Speaks: His Self Portrait and Struggle with Stalin | p. 126 |
| Cities | p. 142 |
| From The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | p. 145 |
| From The Near East: Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople | p. 148 |
| From Illyrian Spring | p. 152 |
| From Dalmatia and Montenegro | p. 156 |
| From A Memory of Ragusa | p. 159 |
| War | p. 164 |
| From The Registers of Innocent III, the Fourth Crusade | p. 170 |
| From Devastatio Constantinopolitana | p. 176 |
| From The War Diaries of Vladimir Dedijer, 1941-43 | p. 177 |
| From Eastern Approaches | p. 189 |
| From The Island of Terrible Friends | p. 199 |
| From Sword of Honour | p. 216 |
| From The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia | p. 223 |
| From The Fall of Yugoslavia | p. 234 |
| Epilogue | p. 247 |
| Bibliography | p. 249 |
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