Albania's Mountain Queen: Edith Durham and the Balkans

by Marcus Tanner

Whilst young ladies in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were expected to have many creative accomplishments, they were not expected to travel unaccompanied, and certainly not to the remote corners of Southeast Europe, then part of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. But Edith Durham was no ordinary lady. In 1900, at the age of 37, Durham set sail for the Balkans for the first time. Her trip was intended as a means of recovering from a period of ill-health,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780768192
• ISBN13: 9781780768199
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.6"