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.

West's objective was "to show the past side by side with the present it created"

West’s vast, complex book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is more than a timeless guide to Yugoslavia - it is a portrait of the author’s soul and of Europe on the brink of war.

West’s vast, complex book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is more than a timeless guide to Yugoslavia - it is a portrait of the author’s soul and of Europe on the brink of war. Geoff Dyer explores one of the neglected masterpieces of 20th-century travel writing.

Black Lamb and Grey Falco. has been added to your Basket. First published in 1942, Rebecca West's epic masterpiece is widely regarded as the most illuminating book to have been written on the former state of Yugoslavia. It is a work of enduring value that remains essential for anyone attempting to understand the enigmatic history of the Balkan states, and the continuing friction in this fractured area of Europe. See all Product description.

Rebecca West, Geoff Dyer. A TRAVEL LITERATURE CLASSIC INTRODUCED BY GEOFF DYER First published in 1942, Rebecca West's epic masterpiece is widely regarded as the most illuminating book to have been written on the former state of Yugoslavia

Rebecca West, Geoff Dyer. A TRAVEL LITERATURE CLASSIC INTRODUCED BY GEOFF DYER First published in 1942, Rebecca West's epic masterpiece is widely regarded as the most illuminating book to have been written on the former state of Yugoslavia.

At 1100 pages, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a very big book – a vast, teeming, magnum-opussy thingamajig combining history, travelogue, political theory and ethnographic fantastication. So, yeah, not for everybody. I happen to think it’s a work of genius, but even so, it took me well over a year to get through. A TRAVEL LITERATURE CLASSIC INTRODUCED BY GEOFF DYER. First published in 1942, Rebecca West's epic masterpiece is widely regarded as the most illuminating book to have been written on the former state of Yugoslavia

Rebecca West, Geoff Dyer.

REBECCA WEST, novelist, biographer, journalist, and critic, was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and . The result was her masterpiece, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, published in 1941 in two volumes.

REBECCA WEST, novelist, biographer, journalist, and critic, was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and forceful writers. Born Cicily Isabel Fairfield on December 21, 1892, she was educated at George Watson’s Ladies College. She adopted the nom de plume Rebecca West from Ibsen’s Rosmerholm, in which she once appeared. In her obituary, The Times (London) remarked of this work that it was immediately recognized as a magnum opus, as astonishing in its range, in the subtlety and power of its judgment, as it is brilliant in expression.

Items related to Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. West, Rebecca Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. ISBN 13: 9781841957876. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture-with, in fact, any other book-is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire crossed with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. West visited Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936.

Illustrated with black and white photographs

Wests objective was to show the past side by side with. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Green cloth covered boards with light wear and a couple of small dirt marks. Pages are age tanned but in good, clean condition.