black lamb and grey falcon a journey through yugoslavia

Under deadline pressure for an opus that was ballooning into two volumes, West returned a third time in 1938. He is not named but provides quiet observation and mordant commentary throughout the narrative. West made her second visit, this time with husband Henry Andrews accompanying her, in spring of 1937, returning that May.

It was during this travel to and from Yugoslavia through Central Europe that she witnessed the cultural shift and aggressive preparation in Germany in particular that presaged World War II. She was seriously ill in Yugoslavia and sought treatment outside the country. She first visited for a lecture tour organized by the British Council in the spring of 1936, which explains in part her delight in Orthodox Easter while she visited Skopje and Ohrid in Macedonia and Belgrade in Serbia. The single volume treats these three journeys as one long meditation. REBECCA WEST MADE three trips to Yugoslavia in the late 1930s but never again visited the country, even after the end of World War II. From the front leaf of the 1st US Edition. It will all be quite clear once we are in Yugoslavia.” (Prologue) The journeys of Rebecca West in Yugoslavia, 1936-1938. But when you get there you will see why it was so important that we should make this journey, and that we should make it now, at Easter. “My dear, I know I have inconvenienced you terribly by making you take your holiday now, and I know you did not really want to come to Yugoslavia at all.

Black lamb and grey falcon a journey through yugoslavia