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Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir Hardcover - 1993
by Add Murphy, Dervla
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- Title Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir
- Author Add Murphy, Dervla
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Overlook Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-12-01
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 521RNJ00104U
- ISBN 9780879514723 / 0879514728
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.28 x 0.97 in (23.42 x 15.95 x 2.46 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Transylvania (Romania) - Description and, Murphy, Dervla - Travel - Romania -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93026235
- Dewey Decimal Code 914.984
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From the rear cover
While world attention was focused on Bucharest after the execution of Ceausescu, acclaimed travel writer Dervla Murphy spent eight months in Transylvania sharing the everyday lives of ordinary Romanians. Upon her arrival soon after the revolution, Murphy found a nation both exhilarated and bewildered; unlike other East Europeans, the Romanians had had no warning that they were about to be liberated. During a return visit in 1991, she noticed a profound change in the national mood. Candid and eye-opening, Transylvania and Beyond describes a journey on two levels - wandering through the remotest corners of the Carpathians, on foot or by bicycle, and into the often daunting mental terrain of a post-Communist society where nothing is quite as it seems. Murphy was overwhelmed by the warmth of the hospitality she received. In urban blocs, small towns and traditional villages she spent time with teachers, factory-workers, writers, farmers, professors, engineers, vets, army officers, shepherds, students and doctors. As they revealed their hopes, fears and prejudices to her, Dervla gained some unexpected insights into what she calls "one of Europe's least European countries".