Balkan Departures: Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe: 4

by Wendy Bracewell (Editor), Alex Drace-Francis (Editor)

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  2009

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  In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive � traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory defi nitions of the West as modern, progressive and rational.