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When Tessa de Loo saw Albania for the first time, no foreigners were allowed to enter. Filled with a great curiosity, longing, and a sense of wonderment by this isolated land, de Loo gazed toward the mountains that stood like 'the backs of patiently waiting elephants' across the water from Corfu. Inspired by the famous Thomas Phillips portrait of Lord Byron in Albanian national costume, and enthralled by the image of Lord Byron since her teenage years, she sets about exploring not only his physical journey, but attempts to understand his inner one as well. de Loo stole her way in and found a country suffering the hardships of post-communist reality and the constant and sometimes fractious clash between tradition and modernity. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, de Loo, the award-winning author of "The Twins," has written a fascinating travelogue and a very personal reassessment of the a formative chapter in Lord Byron's short life.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: In Byron's Footsteps
• Author: Tessa DeLoo
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781906598778
• ISBN: 1906598770
• ID: 04352743
• Publisher: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
• Weight: 238 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 116 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. May 2011

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