| Biografi: A Traveler's Tale Contributor(s): Jones, Lloyd (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156001284 ISBN-13: 9780156001281 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1994 Annotation: Controversial and acclaimed in its previous editions, this dazzling hybrid of travel writing and imaginative writing is now being published for the first time in the U.S. Traveling to Albania in 1991, the author finds a relentlessly bizarre world of half-truths where individuals and the country are being forced to reimagine an identity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Europe - Eastern - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 94025467 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.35" W x 8.84" (0.81 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Balkan - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1991, with communism in tatters throughout Eastern Europe, Jones journeyed to a most unlikely destination: Albania. What he found was a relentlessly bizarre world of half-truths and fictions, a world where your status and sometimes your life hinged on your biografi. Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year. Map. |