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Transylvania and Beyond by Dervla Murphy

Name: Transylvania and Beyond by Dervla Murphy
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SKU: 0879514728
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Transylvania and Beyond by Dervla Murphy

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Solo Cycling Across the Carpathian Mountains in Post-Ceaușescu Romania

Arriving in Romania shortly after the violent 1989 revolution and execution of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy pedaled through a nation navigating chaotic political transition. After losing her luggage to border thieves, Murphy acquired a basic local bicycle and set off across the Carpathian Mountains.

Her unvarnished travelogue logs stays in urban apartment blocks and remote Saxon hamlets, recording candid kitchen-table discussions with Romanians, Hungarians, and Roma families as they adjusted to post-communist realities.

Why You’ll Love This Book

Dervla Murphy offers a gritty, ground-level eyewitness account of Eastern European liberation and rural mountain life. Essential reading for lovers of European travelogues, post-communist history, and solo cycling memoirs.

Edition & Specifications

Publisher: Overlook Books

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publication Date: 1993

ISBN: 9780879514723

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