Europe - Whither Bound‪?‬

This searching travel narrative opens with Europe after World War I as a continent in flux, torn between decline and renewal. From Athens and the Acropolis to Vienna's cafés and theaters, the narrator uses vivid impressions of capitals, borders, and public life to probe the moral, political, and economic wreckage left by war. Ancient grandeur, modern nationalism, refugee misery, and the collapse of money and trade all become signs of a civilization struggling to hold itself together. In Greece, the beauty and ease of modern Athens are shadowed by political bitterness, propaganda, and national ambition, especially in the aftermath of King Constantine's restoration and Venizelos's fall. The journey then widens to the human cost of upheaval in Salonica, where Russian exiles and typhus victims embody Europe's exile and dislocation. Alongside these grim scenes runs a sharp, comic attack on the passport-and-visa maze, border humiliations, and currency chaos that make travel itself a study in distrust and waste. Vienna emerges as a fading imperial center, elegant yet economically shattered, while debates over Austria's future reveal a continent still deciding what it will become. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.