Macedonia -- Books -- Part 2

While we are grateful that we can find so many good books and CDs and movies at our GULF BEACHES PUBLIC LIBRARY, we also wanted to invest in resources about Macedonia and Albania that we can call our own.  Books that can travel with us to the Balkans. Books that we can take notes in (and dogear the pages...)

After renewing the Pimsleur Albanian CDs at the library the maximum number of times, we decided that it would be a good idea to have the course that we can bring with us. 

We also had to buy the Macedonian book and CD course -- so that we could at least say здраво, добра ноќ, благодарам, молам.

The Bradt Macedonian travel guide makes us wonder if we have enough time to enjoy all of the parks and ski resorts and ancient Roman ruins and mosques and fortresses and lakes and cathedrals and ...

My daughter found this book about Mother Teresa -- who was from Skopje -- that she has been reading.  (There is a museum -- the Memorial House of Mother Teresa -- in Skopje -- on the site of the church where she was baptized.) 

We are also looking forward to learning more about Apostle Paul's travels through the region (and we are wondering if there are any landmarks to visit? although we won't be taking the road to Damascus any time soon...)

And I am looking forward to reading the Rossos history of Macedonia.  The Studies of Nationalities series published by the Hoover Institution Press at Stanford is outstanding.  We had found King's book on Moldova to be especially helpful as we prepared for that Fulbright. 

So much to read, so little time!

We can't wait till we land in Skopje...and immerse ourselves in all things Macedonian!