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A Balkan Freebooter: Being the True Exploits of The Serbian Outlaw and Comitaj Petko Moritch - Couverture souple

Gordon, Jan

 
9781605201009: A Balkan Freebooter: Being the True Exploits of The Serbian Outlaw and Comitaj Petko Moritch
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1605201006 ISBN 13 : 9781605201009
Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2019

Synopsis

This is the transcription of a story told to Jan by Petko Moritch, a pseudonym used to protect Jan's acquaintance. Petko was something of Robin Hood in Serbia, falsely charged with murder for having punched an Austrian the day before Austrians came to power. Petko escaped prison and continued to escape each time was captured. He stole from the rich and gave to those who helped him, always eluding capture. A BALKAN FREEBOOTER provides readers with both harrowing adventure and an accurate depiction of the people of Serbia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Written in 1916, A Balkan Freebooter is the sequel to the collaborative project The Luck of Thirteen, which American author and artist JAN GORDON (1884-1944) wrote with his wife, Core Josephine Gordon, about their adventures in Serbia.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is the transcription of a story told to Jan by Petko Moritch, a pseudonym used to protect Jan's acquaintance. Petko was something of Robin Hood in Serbia, falsely charged with murder for having punched an Austrian the day before Austrians came to power. Petko escaped prison and continued to escape each time was captured. He stole from the rich and gave to those who helped him, always eluding capture. A BALKAN FREEBOOTER provides readers with both harrowing adventure and an accurate depiction of the people of Serbia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Written in 1916, A Balkan Freebooter is the sequel to the collaborative project The Luck of Thirteen, which American author and artist JAN GORDON (1884-1944) wrote with his wife, Core Josephine Gordon, about their adventures in Serbia.

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Éditeur
Cosimo Classics
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1605201006
ISBN 13 
9781605201009
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
339
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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