Peaks of Shala

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Tonight, we’ll read from the opening to the 1923 travel memoir Peaks of Shala by Rose Wilder Lane. It is about a walking tour of mountainous Albania. The daughter of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lane was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist. Though she is perhaps best known today for her work editing and shaping her mother’s Little House series, Lane led a bold and independent life that took her far from the American frontier. In the early 1920s, she spent time as a foreign correspondent in postwar Europe, traveling through parts of the continent still recovering from World War I. Albania, then newly independent and largely unknown to the Western world, captured her imagination with its dramatic landscapes and fiercely traditional mountain communities. Peaks of Shala recounts her journey on foot through the northern Albanian highlands, a region governed more by ancient tribal codes than by any central government. Her writing blends observation and introspection, offering glimpses of rugged hospitality, isolated customs, and the physical demands of mountain travel. The book remains a rare first-hand account of a Western woman’s experience in one of the most remote corners of Europe during a period of great transition. — read by 'N' — Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.1	Tonight, we'll read from the opening to the 1923 travel memoir, Peaks of Shala by Rose Wilder
1:26.9	Lane.
1:32.3	It is about a walking tour of mountainous Albania. The daughter of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder,
1:36.3	Lane was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist.
1:43.3	Though she is perhaps best known today for her work novelist and political theorist.
1:46.9	Though she is perhaps best known today for her work editing and shaping her mother's little house series,
1:52.6	Lane led a bold and independent life
1:55.4	that took her far from the American frontier.
2:00.1	In the early 1920s, she spent time as a foreign correspondent in
2:05.2	post-war Europe, traveling through parts of the continent still recovering from World War I.
2:12.5	Albania, then newly independent and largely unknown to the Western world,
2:18.3	captured her imagination with its dramatic landscapes
2:23.3	and fiercely traditional mountain communities.
2:27.3	Peaks of Shala recounts her journey on foot
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