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As Croatia emerges from the shadow of former Yugoslavia, several writers of Croatian origin have taken the opportunity to rediscover their roots.
Plum Brandy:
Croatian Journeys by Josip Novakovich is a sensitive exploration of his family’s Croatian background.
Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country by Tony Fabijancic recounts the life of rural folks in a new Croatia. The classic travel book on Yugoslavia, indeed one of the all-time great travel books, is Rebecca West’s
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Written in 1941 as the world was becoming enmeshed in WWII, this massive volume recounts several trips that the writer took through Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Montenegro, weaving her observations into a seamless narrative. Passionate, forthright and wise, West’s encyclopedic knowledge of Balkan history and culture illuminates many of the region’s current difficulties. In contrast, Tony White, a British writer, recently retraced her journey and wrote
Another Fool in the Balkans that manages to ignore nearly all of Croatia’s 1990s trauma.
Robert Kaplan is a contemporary journalist who travelled through the Balkans in the 1980s and early 1990s as Yugoslavia began to fall apart. His book
Balkan Ghosts gives valuable insight into the culture that resulted in such a tragic meltdown.
From wealth to calamity to wealth again, Dubrovnik’s story has been remarkable and there’s no better book to explore it all than Robin Harris’ delightfully readable
Dubrovnik: A History.
The lively anthology
Croatia: Through Writers’ Eyes includes an appealing selection of travellers’ accounts. From the gung-ho and harrowing to the whimsical and poetic, these stories paint diverse pictures of encounters and experiences in Croatia.
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