Just started a mammoth-sized book called
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West.
I stumbled across this book whilst looking for travel books that I thought that a friend might enjoy reading (for Christmas). Not so certain that it might be his cup of tea, but the description definitely intrigued me.

Rebecca West (her pen name), real name Cicely Isabel Fairfield, was born in 1892 in England. From what I've been reading so far about her in the introduction, she was an extremely intelligent, forward-thinking, feminist who wrote on a variety of topics, sometimes writing critical studies (like of Henry James) and wrote novels too. You can read more about her on Wiki. Quite a fascinating woman and life!
In any event, she made a number of trips to what was then Yugoslavia during the 1930's. It sounds like this book (originally published in two volumes) will be a combination of travel essays, history, politics, religious and cultural studies and thoughts on this former country. It was published in 1941.
PD