The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia

Two traveling observers cross mountain passes and frontier roads in the Balkans, recording landscapes, village life, bazaars and inns. They describe military scenes from riverfront positions and front lines, hospitals and retreating convoys, and recount a large-scale flight over difficult roads to coastal embarkation points. Diary fragments, photographs, maps and sketches are interwoven with accounts of local costumes, market scenes and the labor of mule-drivers and ox-wagons. Practical travel detail and eyewitness wartime reportage combine with human encounters involving guides, villagers and refugees to create a panoramic, on-the-ground chronicle.