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Bosnia has left comparatively few written records of its culture, and this book attempts to fill that gap with an anthology of British travel accounts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ranging from the earliest British travel writings in the sixteenth-century to the beginning of the twentieth-century, Hadziselimovic traces the British fascination with fictions of Bosnia as "exotic," "distant," and "oriental." In addition to holding up a revealing mirror to the attitudes of the British toward the Balkan

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Author

with an introduction and notes by Omer Hadžiselimović

Publisher

Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs ; New York: Distributed by Columbia University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780880334709

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Travel, History, Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25