Author: MYER, WILL
Title: People of the Storm God: Travels in Macedonia
Description: Northampton MA, Interlink Books. 2005, First Thus. (ISBN: 1566565782) Soft cover. Book, Travelling in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and the newly independent Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Myer encounters a bewildering array of political and cultural opinions-Orthodox Christians and Muslims, communists and nationalists, warlords and modernizers. His investigations take him to Orthodox weddings and Easter parades, political meetings and religious ceremonies. He encounters widows and witches, dervishes and mystics. Throughout he remains fascinated by the human dimension of Macedonia"s deep-seated identity crisis. More than a simple travelogue, People of the Storm God casts light on the troubled history of Macedonia and its unique melting pot of politics, religion and ethnicity. This book evocatively reveals both the extraordinary cultural diversity of the Balkans and the weight of history borne by its different peoples. As New.

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