The Fracture Zone

Author: Simon Winchester

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  • : $35.00 NZD
  • : 9780060954949
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : Harper Perennial US
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  • : 0.209
  • : 01 October 2000
  • : 208mm X 136mm X 17mm
  • : United States
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Barcode 9780060954949
9780060954949

Description

The bestselling author of "The Professor and the Madman" turns his journalistic skills to the eternal strangeness of southeast Europe, the region known as the Balkans, and goes behind the headlines to offer a true picture of a region always on the brink. Maps.

Reviews

"Scholarly and moving ... [Winchester] combines historical significance with dramatic insight." --"Independent on Sunday"[Winchester's] unsentimental descriptions of the area's destroyed mosques, burned and virulent graffiti serve as a poignant are gone."--"Publishers Weekly