The Miss Stone Affair pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024


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The Miss Stone Affair epub 下載 mobi 下載 pdf 下載 txt 電子書 下載 2024

The Miss Stone Affair epub 下載 mobi 下載 pdf 下載 txt 電子書 下載 2024

The Miss Stone Affair pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024



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From Publishers Weekly Zooming in on a historical footnote, the kidnapping of an American missionary by Macedonian revolutionaries in 1901, Carpenter discovers a Byronic adventure and an early lesson in the perils of international power for the U.S. Ellen Stone was a committed evangelical missionary and an indomitable adventurer who became, says Carpenter, "a law unto herself" in the unstable and newly autonomous Bulgaria, which Carpenter describes as "a nominal Ottoman principality, an American-style democracy, and a Russian client state." In Macedonia, ethnic Bulgarians still ruled by Turks formed a guerrilla resistance, partly financed by brigandage. A rogue band of these revolutionaries seized Stone and another hostage, a local Protestant convert, who was five months pregnant. American involvement was delayed by William McKinley's assassination, just days after the abduction. But Stone's predicament naturally lent itself to sensational media coverage and soon became a cause c‚lŠbre, prompting a fund-raising drive to collect the hefty ransom demanded by her captors. With America's limited diplomatic presence in the Balkans, the tangled political agendas of the regional leaders, and the secrecy of the Macedonian guerrillas, the negotiations involved murky, back-channel dealings and hidden subtexts, which Carpenter skillfully delineates. Carpenter-a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, former senior editor of the Village Voice, and author of Mob Girl-might have deepened her exploration of the historical issues at stake: the consequences of Ottoman decline and American ascendance. She might even have indulged the melodramatic potential of the tale more. Still, it's a gripping yarn, even in her straightforward account. Photos, map. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Political journalist Carpenter addresses the timely subject of hostage crises by turning back to the affair of Ellen Stone, an American Protestant missionary kidnapped in Macedonia in 1901. With a pregnant Albanian woman, Katerina Tsilka, as chaperone, Stone was hauled up hill and down dale through Macedonia and parts of Bulgaria. Her captors were Macedonian Bulgarians, for whom her ransom would buy arms for their independence struggle with the nominal Bulgarian government in Sofia. Stone and Tsilka owed their lives to the Stockholm Syndrome--captors and captives becoming mutually sympathetic--and the local belief that it was bad luck to harm pregnant women and infants. A very modern-sounding array of quarreling diplomats, incompetent translators, authority figures ignorant of the Balkans, saber rattling, and intrusive media figures failed to help the hostages much, and still Tsilka delivered a daughter and, after their ransom, both women left Macedonia safely. Generally well done, the book suffers a bit from condescension toward the U.S. Navy and Theodore Roosevelt's ambitions for it, and from failing to track Stone after 1908. Roland GreenCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved See all Editorial Reviews

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