num_pages: 264
description: On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries.In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.
language: English
title: The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis
titlecomplete: The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis
genres: True Crime, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 54
places: North Macedonia, Balkans
publisher: Simon & Schuster