West is best

Is Rebecca West's account of her journey through the former Yugoslavia the greatest travel book ever written?

I am rereading Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: a Journey through Yugoslavia. Despite being only up to Macedonia and page 688 (of 1150), I do not want it to end. West may be absolutely of her time (the book was published in 1942, and is a desperate cry for liberal, humanist values at a time when those values were being annihilated), and Black Lamb may be an unashamed love...

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Published on January 15, 2007 01:07
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