We hope you will find a special treasure to read or share. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941 in two volumes by Macmillan in the UK and by The Viking Press in the US. Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is one."Įach book in our collection has been hand selected by Barbara and Michael over many years of hunting for them. It made the Random House Modern Library list of the best 100 non-fiction books of the 20th century.Īmerican writer Larry McMurtry says in an essay that "there are only a few great travel books. The book's epigraph reads: "To my friends in Yugoslavia, who are now all dead or enslaved". West hoped that by travelling through Yugoslavia. Publication of the book coincided with the Nazi Invasion of Yugoslavia, and West added a foreword highly praising the Yugoslavs for their brave defiance against Germany. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a journey by British born Rebecca West through Yugoslavia, between the wars. West's objective was "to show the past side by side with the present it created". The book is over 1,100 pages in modern editions and gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography during West's six-week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937.
During the trip West and her husband travelled to Croatia, Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Old Serbia, and Montenegro. The book details the six-week journey West made, with her husband, to Yugoslavia in 1937. Outside of the book is in good condition. This is a rare copy of the "literary classics edition" published by Viking in November, 1943. "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" by Rebecca West.
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