Through the Embers of Chaos
John Murray Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7195-6232-7 (ISBN)
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While bicycling hundreds of miles through beautiful yet tragically depopulated regions, Dervla Murphy stayed with families whose lives had been devastated by murder, pillage and forcible uprooting. Many conversations revealed griefs and confusions of ordinary people, some of whom have shown extraordinary courage and resilience during the "decade of decay". Throughout Serbia, a few months of NATO bombing had inflicted immense suffering on the whole population - apart from Slobodan Milosevic's coterie - yet remarkably traditional Balkan hospitality had survived. Friends made in one place passed Dervla to friends elsewhere - from town to town and city to city. In the spring of 2000 she found the uneasy new states of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina struggling to cope with their different problems. Tiny Montenegro - dramatically beautiful - was politically and economically in chaos. Kosovo, being ruled by the UN/Nato/OSCE triumvirate, was constitutionally in a state of suspended animation. A detour into individualistic Albania led to Dervla being attacked and robbed three times. Throughout her travels, Dervla tries to make sense of the confusing history and politics of this area.
The acceptance of Yugoslavia's disintegration by so many Western commentators exasperates her. She contends that had the "Great Powers" behaved otherwise, Yugoslavia would have survived. She sees at first hand the results of war crimes committed by various Balkan forces in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, and she also forcibly indicts the Nato air war. The Yugoslav essayist, Dubravka Ugresic, wrote in 1996, "Over the last five years, numerous books have been published [about Yugoslavia}. In this heap of spoken and written words, few have mentioned the ordinary people". This book aims to focus on these ordinary people.
Dervla Murphy is one of the very best loved of travel writers. She was born in County Waterford and since 1964 has been regularly publishing accounts of her journeys - by bicycle and on foot -- in the remoter areas of four continents. She has also written about the problems of Northern Ireland, the hazards of nuclear power, and race relations in Britain. The Times Literary Supplement called her 'an admirable woman -- she has a romantic soul and a keen eye'.
Part I 1991-2 - Croatia: Croatia in transition. Part II 1999 - Serbia: Belgrade as the dust settled; damage - collateral and otherwise; where the river flowed over the bridges. Part III 2000 - Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo: carnival time in Pokupsko; crossing a shameful "border"; minefields and a blizzard; transformed by a siege; threatening tunnels and a fractured city; clerical extremists; disconcerted in Montenegro; slowly into Albania; quickly out of Albania; in and around Prizren; the Kosovo experiment; a daytrip with compatriots; tension in Mitrovica; enclaves at risk; the uniqueness of Montenegro; from a former royal capital to a former republic; Ruari's last lap - through the Krajina.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.11.2002 |
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| Zusatzinfo | maps, chronology, author's note, acronyms, bibliography, acknowledgements, index |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 38 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7195-6232-5 / 0719562325 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7195-6232-7 / 9780719562327 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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