This is the most sympathetic and perceptive book about Jugoslavia since Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon . It is more than a guide book, although it has everything a guide book should have. Tourists who want to see interesting buildings or exciting scenery will learn what is most important to see in each town and in each museum and how they can reach out-of-the-way roads through beautiful places like Rugovo Gorge or the mountains of Slovenia. The real excellence of the book, however, is in the author's knowledge of the people and their language, their history and their legends. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT