Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Held Captive to Old Ways of Life in Newly Free Societies by Witold Szabłowski

Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Held Captive to Old Ways of Life in Newly Free Societies

Witold Szabłowski with Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)

256 pages digital 2014

21 editions

nonfiction history politics travel reflective slow-paced
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For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refug...

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