`These fascinating letters and reports - never previously collected - cast fresh light on one of the most vital periods of Albanian history. The crisis which began in the late 1870s would lead, eventually, to the creation of an independent Albania. But while the end-point of that process was a relatively simple solution, the starting-point was a complex problem, with ... Read moremany different interests competing for power. Arthur Evans was both an opinionated young man and a brilliant journalist, with a vivid pen and a keen appetite for information; his accounts of these tensions and conflicts, both internal and international, make him a very valuable witness - and a very good read.' - Sir Noel Malcolm, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, `Despite their biases as pointed out by the editors, Evans' journalistic reports provide an impressive depth of detail as well as insightful analyses of events, personalities and intrigue within their cultural and historical context.' - George W. Gawrych, Professor of History, Baylor University and author of The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman Rule, Islam and the Albanians (I.B.Tauris) Show Less