In July of 1875, as Arthur Evans and his brother Lewis made plans to
travel through Bosnia-Herzegovina on foot, revolution came to the
Balkans. By the time the two Brits arrived a month later, full
insurrection was underway and they found themselves not only travelers
in a remote, unexplored land, but witnesses to history. Rich in its
reflections on Bosnian culture, landscape, and history, Evans' account
serves also as a window into one of the country's most important social
upheavals. Part travelogue, part first-person journalism, this is
living, breathing history at its best. Best known for discovering and
naming the Bronze Age civilization of the Minoans, British archaeologist
SIR ARTHUR JOHN EVANS (1851-1941) also wrote Cretan Pictographs and
Prae-Phoenician Script, The Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult, and The
Palace of Minos.