Romania Revisited On the Trail of English

This book is the definitive story of the journeys made by English travelers to Romania between 1602 and 1941. The author interweaves the impressions of previous generations into the witty account of his own journeys made in the summer and winter of 1998. Although the chapters are arranged to follow his own route, the author successfully integrates earlier writers into his narrative by linking them to towns and places. Starting with the Transylvanian adventures of Captain John Smith (of Pocahantas fame) in 1602, and the bibliography is the most detailed inventory yet published of English travel writing in Romania. The author, with his unerring sense of human nature has selected those passages which throw light upon the attitudes of earlier travelers and highlight some of their more amusing antics. The author's own journey is a comprehensive and perspicacious review of today's Romania which focuses on the heritage and art of the country, as well as being a delightful account of his own e

After a career as an international public relations executive, Alan Ogden turned his passion for travel and photography into photographing and writing about some of the places dearest to him. His books include Romania Revisited: On the Trail of English Travellers, 1602-1941, Revelations of Byzantium: The Monasteries and Painted Churches of Northern Moldavia, and Fortresses of Faith: A Pictorial History of the Fortified Saxon Churches of Romania, among others. He was a founder member of Pro Patrimonio, an NGO whose main mission is the conservation, rescue and reactivation of the cultural heritage of Romania, especially in architecture, and also of the Patrick Leigh Fermor Society, which published the quarterly The Philhellene. He lives in London, England.

Introduction	p. 7
Map Symbols	p. 10
The Photographs	p. 11
Summer
Cluj, a City of Contradictions	p. 17
The Medieval World of Sighisoara	p. 27
In Saxon Transylvania	p. 37
Sibiu, the Anatomy of a Lobster	p. 49
Into the Dacian Heartland	p. 61
Gypsies, the Last Romantics	p. 73
Moldavia, a New Perception of the World	p. 81
Revelations of the Byzantine World	p. 95
Maramures, Where Time Stands Still	p. 105
Winter
Return to Maramures	p. 117
Houses and Gardens in the High Carpathians	p. 127
Bucharest: One Street, One Church, and One Idea	p. 147
Iasi, Once a Capital, Always a Capital	p. 167
A River, a Delta, and a Black Sea	p. 177
Oltenia: Heavens above, Rugs below	p. 191
Timisoara, The Long Arm of Vienna	p. 201
Appendices
A Brief Summary of Romanian History	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 211
Introduction	p. 211
On the Trail: The Gentlemen and The Ladies	p. 213
General Bibliography	p. 219
Note on the Pronunciation of Romanian Words	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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Romania Revisited On the Trail of English Travellers, 1602-1941

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