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- catalog abstract ""On September 3, 1901, Miss Ellen Stone, an American missionary, set out on horseback for a trek across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia. In a narrow gorge she was attacked by a band of masked men who carried her off the road and, more significantly, onto the path of history. Stone would become the first American captured for ransom on foreign soil." "In The Miss Stone Affair, master storyteller and Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter re-creates the drama of this country's first modern hostage crisis - an event that held the world's attention and dominated the headlines in American and European dailies for months. Using a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diplomatic cables, she constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical." "On a journey that takes the reader from Boston's Beacon Hill to Constantinople and the bloody revolution-wracked nation-states of the Balkans, Carpenter introduces an unforgettable cast of characters: the strong-willed Miss Stone and her Bulgarian companion, Katerina Tsilka, who is brought along by the kidnappers - in deference to Victorian convention - as a chaperone; the terrorists who threaten to murder their hostages and yet are awed when Tsilka gives birth to a baby girl; the diplomat who sees the Stone case as a vehicle for his personal ambition; rival negotiators whom the terrorists pit one against the other; a media mogul obsessed with finding the hostages and securing their literary rights; and, of course, the new president, Theodore Roosevelt, who must decide if he should, as many of his countrymen are demanding, send warships to the Near East or if some quieter form of intervention might win the day."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12818363.
- catalog coverage "Macedonia History 1878-1912.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""On September 3, 1901, Miss Ellen Stone, an American missionary, set out on horseback for a trek across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia. In a narrow gorge she was attacked by a band of masked men who carried her off the road and, more significantly, onto the path of history. Stone would become the first American captured for ransom on foreign soil." "In The Miss Stone Affair, master storyteller and Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter re-creates the drama of this country's first modern hostage crisis - an event that held the world's attention and dominated the headlines in American and European dailies for months. Using a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diplomatic cables, she constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical." "On a journey that takes the reader from Boston's Beacon Hill to Constantinople and the bloody revolution-wracked nation-states of the Balkans, Carpenter introduces an unforgettable cast of characters: the strong-willed Miss Stone and her Bulgarian companion, Katerina Tsilka, who is brought along by the kidnappers - in deference to Victorian convention - as a chaperone; the terrorists who threaten to murder their hostages and yet are awed when Tsilka gives birth to a baby girl; the diplomat who sees the Stone case as a vehicle for his personal ambition; rival negotiators whom the terrorists pit one against the other; a media mogul obsessed with finding the hostages and securing their literary rights; and, of course, the new president, Theodore Roosevelt, who must decide if he should, as many of his countrymen are demanding, send warships to the Near East or if some quieter form of intervention might win the day."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.".
- catalog description "Miss Ellen Stone -- Alert -- The Captives -- Diplomacy -- Thread and Soap -- Summer Dresses -- The Commission -- The Revolutionists -- The Baby -- The Gold -- The Chase -- Persona Non Grata.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 238 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Miss Stone affair.".
- catalog identifier "0743200551".
- catalog isFormatOf "Miss Stone affair.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Miss Stone affair.".
- catalog spatial "Macedonia History 1878-1912.".
- catalog spatial "Macedonia".
- catalog spatial "Macedonia.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "949.5/6072 21".
- catalog subject "Abduction Macedonia.".
- catalog subject "DR2218.S76 C37 2003".
- catalog subject "Kidnapping Macedonia.".
- catalog subject "Missionaries Macedonia Biography.".
- catalog subject "Missionaries United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Stone, Ellen Maria, 1846-1927.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Miss Ellen Stone -- Alert -- The Captives -- Diplomacy -- Thread and Soap -- Summer Dresses -- The Commission -- The Revolutionists -- The Baby -- The Gold -- The Chase -- Persona Non Grata.".
- catalog title "The Miss Stone affair : America's first modern hostage crisis / Teresa Carpenter.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".