Margaret Hasluck lived fourteen years in Albania and has recorded the life of mountain tribes in their villages and how they fight a vendetta that at one time developed out of head-hunting and later became a highly ritualistic obligation of vengeance with unwritten rules for conducting a feud, for expiation, and for ending the feud. Other chapters give information about the daily life of the household and the laws governing division of property; about boundaries, pastures, and watchdogs; about the administrative hierarchy and the archaic forms of oaths; and about verdicts and penalties for theft and murder. The observations are presented with great clarity and sympathy. They resemble clinical reports without interpretation, but contain new information of great interest for the ethnologist and psychoanalyst. During World War II Margaret Hasluck used her extensive knowledge of the Albanian Highlands for the briefing of the British men who were to be infiltrated into Albania by air and sea. The text is excellently edited with an introduction by J. H. Hutton.