James Pettifer Libri

This guide to Albania and Kosovo gives advice on: security and travelling conditions, where to stay and eat, communications and health, and local values and customs. It also features descriptions of places of historical and cultural interest, and directs readers to areas of dramatic natural beauty.

Covers mainland Greece, the cradle of western civilization. Includes information on developments in archaeology. Full-colour throughout with detailed maps and diagrams. Includes Blue Guides Recommended dining and accommodation suggestions.

The Macedonian Question has been at the heart of the Balkan crisis for most of this century. This book brings together international experts to analyze the recent history of Macedonia since the breakup of Yugoslavia and includes analyses of key issues in ethnic relations, politics, and recent history.

In 1997 the previously little-known and isolated Balkan country of Albania exploded as the first armed uprising in mainland Europe since the 1920s brought the country to the brink of civil war. As the violence spread first to neighbouring Kosovo, then to south-east Serbia and finally to former Yugoslav Macedonia, the Albanian question increasingly took center stage in world affairs. This book examines Albania's place in the Balkans, a region which had been forced simultaneously to come to terms with the realities of a post-Communist world and the threat of Slobodan Milosevic's ""Greater Serbia"" project.

This is a guide to Albania, a country about the same size as Wales, with a population of 3.5 million. The book looks at Albania's classical sites, Byzantine churches and Ottoman architecture, its landscapes, beaches, forests, mountains, wildlife and ethnic minorities. The guide offers practical advice for independent travellers, with up-to-date information for business visitors.

Gradually emerging from its post-Communist difficulties, Bulgaria is a country with outstanding mountain and coastal scenery, as well as antiquities. This guide focuses on the rich heritage from Thracian, classical, Byzantine, Ottoman Turkish and National revival periods.,Bulgaria's best kept secrets include historic towns

Originally published: Columbia University Press, 2012.