Bosnia In the Footsteps of Gavrilo Princip

Behind one of the twentieth century's most infamous events lies the forgotten story of Gavrilo Princip, Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassin and unlikely catalyst of the Great War. Inspired by the idealism of the young Princip, Tony Fabijancic ; sets off on an unprecedented journey, shadowing, the ghost of the assassin from the peasant village of his birth, across the rugged breadth of Bosnia-Herzegovina, to his fateful meeting in Sarajevo with the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A human portrait of Princip emerges as Fabijancic ;, accompanied by his father, plunges us into the roiling heart of Bosnia then and now. Two parallel journeys flow into one compelling story that takes readers interested in Balkan nationalism, political terrorism, and literary travel writing on a unique journey through a complex land.



ISBN-13: 9780888645197
Author : Tony Fabijancic
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: 10/28/2009

Meet the Author

Tony Fabijancic has a Ph.D. in English from the University of New Brunswick and teaches at Sire Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. He is the author of Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country.