Transylvania
By Bronwen Riley Photographs by Dan Dinescu
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This title is currently availableHardback, 192pp Published: 13th March 2008 Category: Travel  |
Bronwen Riley writes superbly…Dan Dinescu's photography is simply stunning - Independent
This wonderful book is a testament to this haunting land. Riley is passionate about the region, and has spent much of the past 10 years living in remote mountain villages. In her elegant prose she explores this land recently unshackled from the chains of communism, and finds a place steeped in gypsy magic. Illustrated with Dinescu's hauntingly lovely photographs, this is a very special book. - Sunday Telegraph
Stunning photography illustrates a fascinating journey by Romania expert Riley around this little-known region. Its myths, characters and buildings give remarkable insight into a hidden world. - Tatler
Bronwen Riley writes superbly about her fascination for the region's landscapes, customs and - above all - people, who now face another threshold as modernity at last arrives in remote Romania, courtesy of the EU. Dan Dinescu's photography is simply spine-tingling. - Irish Sunday Tribune
Bronwen Riley's words and Dinescu's pictures should inspire more travellers to explore this repository of Romanticism while it lasts. - Daily Telegraph
Many people think Transylvania is a fictitious land, like Ruritania or Narnia. It is the birthplace of Dracula. It is the place where dragons live in Harry Potter and the country to which the Pied Piper spirited the children of Hamelin. Indeed, although Transylvania is a real place, truth here is often stranger than fiction. Streams run with silver, the mountains are full of gold, dinosaur nests are found in river beds and haystacks in trees. It is a country of striking cultural contrasts: of Orthodox monasteries, Gothic churches and Communist follies. While the 'King of the Gypsies' lives in a grandiose modern palace, the future King of England has bought a modest peasant's house in a remote village. Transylvania only recently awakened from the deep sleep of Communism and, though life is now changing fast, traditions remain here that elsewhere died out long ago.
Transylvania captures this vanishing world in words and pictures.
192 pages
250 colour photographs
