Illyrian Letters
A Revised Selection of Correspondence from the Illyrian Provinces of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia, Addressed to the Manchester Guardian during 1877

Published in 1878, these are letters to the Manchester Guardian from its correspondent in the midst of the Balkan insurrection.

Arthur John Evans (Author)

9781108060967, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 August 2013

290 pages, 3 maps
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.37 kg

Although remembered today chiefly for his archaeological discoveries in Crete, Sir Arthur John Evans (1851–1941) became Britain's leading expert on Balkan affairs after publishing his account of travelling through Bosnia in 1875 (also reissued in this series). In 1877 he returned to the region as a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, reporting on the continuing insurrection against Ottoman rule. Evans is at pains to point out that he does not regard himself as a war correspondent, but wishes to introduce 'in a tolerably peaceful fashion the insurgents and their little mountain territory to the English public'. Published in 1878, these letters offer historical, social and religious background to the insurrection. In so doing, they provide a valuable insight into the genesis of more recent conflicts in a region that has always been a melting pot of peoples and cultures.

Preface
1. Refugee and insurgent Bosnia
2. The fugitives on the caverns
3. At insurgent head-quarters
4. The cloudlands of free Bosnia
5. Feudal castles and insurgent huts
6. The devastation of Bosnia and Mr Consul Holmes' reports
7. How the new constitution was promulgated in Bosnia
8. Through the Lika
9. On the scene of Turkish outrages
10. Interviews with the Bosnian begs
11. Free Bosnia revisited
12. Free Bosnia revisited (cont.)
13. Albania and the eastern key of the Adriatic
14. The reign of terror in Bosnia
15. Peaceful sketches of Montenegro in war time
16. Peaceful sketches of Montenegro in war time (cont.)
17. The fall of Niksic
18. A war-dance at Cettinje
19. Niksic in Montenegrin hands
20. Niksic in Montenegrin hands (cont.)
21. The hope of Bosnia
22. Politics among the Bosnian begs
23. A Bohemian statesman on the eastern crisis and the future of Illyria.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]