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On the road in the former Yugoslavia with a couple of Americans: one recreating his trip from 1984, the other looking for cheese.
On the road in the former Yugoslavia with a couple of Americans: one recreating his trip from 1984, the other looking for cheese.
The vast majority of travel writing about the Balkans is by Western authors; travel writing about the Balkans. What’s much less known is travel writing literature authored by people from the Balkans, including the former Yugoslavia. In fact, Balkan (and ex-YU) writers have been traveling and living to tell the tales for some 150 years now. What’s all this travel writing from the Balkans about? Who are these Balkan travel writers, where do they travel, and what do they have to say about it?
Travel writing about ex-Yugoslavia exploded in the 1990s as the country disintegrated in violence. The lessons the author of the first such account, Brian Hall, learned when he traveled through then-Yugoslavia in 1991 resonate today more than ever.
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