Frank Fox travelled through Bulgaria in the early twentieth century and wrote this account of the country’s turbulent history — its centuries under Ottoman rule, the liberation movements of the nineteenth century, the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and the independent kingdom’s uneasy position between the great powers on the eve of the Balkan Wars. He describes Bulgarian society, landscape, and national character with a journalist’s eye for the telling detail.
Written when the Balkans were at the centre of European diplomatic anxiety, the book offers valuable contemporary perspective on a region and people often overlooked by Western readers.