Excursions In Albania; Comprising A Description Of The Wild Boar, Deer, And Woodcock Shooting In That Country: And A Journey From Thence To Thessaloni

By J.J. Best

Book Overview

Gun smoke, mountain passes, and empire roads. Travel as it once was. In Excursions In Albania, J. J. Best delivers a Victorian travel memoir that moves with the pace of a sporting travel narrative and the curiosity of a roaming observer. From Albania's rugged interior to Thessalonica and Constantinople, and onward up the Danube river to Pest, Best records landscapes, routes, and encounters with a practical traveller's eye. Best writes with calm authority, balancing distance and terrain with the immediate tension of the chase. The field sport is vivid without bravado: wild boar hunting, deer stalking adventures, and woodcock shooting stories sit beside sharp glimpses of local life and the borderlands of power. It is at once report, memoir, and record. For armchair travellers and shooters alike, the prose carries the rasp of boots on stone and the quiet drama of uncertain borders, without losing its wit or restraint today, either much. Read today, it stands as a Balkan history primary source and a striking piece of Ottoman Empire travel writing, capturing a region on the map yet still unfamiliar to most English readers of its day. As a complete travelogue reprint in a classic reprint edition, it speaks to collectors of Balkan exploration literature and anyone drawn to Albania travel history, nineteenth-century movement, and the textures of classic travel writing. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354507166
• ISBN13: 9789354507168
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"