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Albania's Greatest Friend: Aubrey Herbert and the Making of Modern Albania: Diaries and Papers 1904-1923

Albania's Greatest Friend: Aubrey Herbert and the Making of Modern Albania: Diaries and Papers 1904-1923

Herbert, Aubrey
Malcolm, Noel
Destani, Bejtullah D.

Hardcover

Historical FiguresEastern European HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1848854447
ISBN13: 9781848854444
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 10 2011
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Impeccably aristocratic and eccentric in a uniquely English tradition, Aubrey Herbert was at first sight an incongruous champion of Albanian nationalism, to say the least. Tall, slender and slightly stooped, with a moustache and heavily lidded eyes, Herbert wore a monocle and had white patches in his hair caused by an attack of alopoecia in 1911. Within England - let alone abroad - he cut a colourful figure. But Herbert was also an acclaimed linguist, intrepid traveller and an outspoken and independent thinker, who became enthralled by the Balkans on his first visit to the region in 1904 as honorary attache at the British Embassy in Constantinople. From that time until his death in 1923, he was indefatigable in campaigning for the Albanian cause. He returned frequently to the country and gained respect as an expert on the region, even being honoured with repeated requests that he assume the Albanian throne. Albania's Greatest Friend charts Herbert's involvement with Albania over the course of his life, in his own words, through his own extensive diaries and letters.

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