Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina

Arthur J. Evans's Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot During the Insurrection, August and September 1875 is both a perilous travel diary and a searching study of a troubled frontier. Written from firsthand experience, it follows Evans and his brother as they cross Bosnia and Herzegovina on foot, moving through mountains, monasteries, bazaars, threatened towns, and insurgent country with unusual independence and risk. What begins as an adventurous journey quickly becomes a vivid record of panic in Sarajevo, armed tension in the countryside, and the stark contrast between wild scenery and political violence. Evans also frames the book as a serious historical and ethnographic inquiry, tracing Bosnia's Slavic origins, the rise of Croats and Serbs, and the region's shifting rule under Byzantium, Hungary, and Ottoman power. He argues that Bosnia's crisis reveals the failures of European diplomacy and the deeper significance of the Eastern Question. Alongside its scholarship, the book offers memorable portraits of Travnik, Mostar, the Narenta valley, and Ragusa, with sharp observation, irony, and a strong sense of place. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.