In 1843 and 1844 a Scottish traveller lived in Belgrade and rode through the highlands and woodlands of the interior of a principality newly freed from Ottoman rule. Paton describes towns half Turkish and half new-built, markets and bazaars, local notables and the politics of the young state, with a history of the Serbian revolution checked against people who had lived through it.
One of the earliest English portraits of modern Serbia, valuable for historians of the Balkans and lovers of old travel. Download the free EPUB.