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Transylvania and beyond : a travel memoir
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Transylvania and beyond : a travel memoir

by Dervla Murphy

This account documents an eight-month journey through Transylvania and the remote Carpathians on foot and by bicycle. It examines the daily lives of inhabitants and the social complexities of a post-Communist society.

Accession 18496 ISBN 0879514728 Publisher Overlook
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