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Mike Ormsby
ASIN: B008EVCY4W
Publisher: Mike Ormsby
Pages: 256

'Never Mind the Balkans, Here’s Romania' has been described as one ofthe best guide books on Romania. If you want to discover Romania withsomeone who knows it well, Mike Ormsby’s travel writing is for you.Whilst the average Romania travel guide provides details of places tovisit, this writer takes a different approach. Ormsby gets up closeand personal, blending journalistic objectivity with dry wit to crafttrue-life stories about the people who live in Romania: from friendlyhikers and shepherds in Transylvania, to exasperated taxi drivers andbossy bureaucrats in Bucharest.Ormsby's bittersweet short stories are a quick and easy read yet offerfascinating glimpses of an enthralling land that Vlad ‘The Impaler’Tepes - real life inspiration for gothic legend Dracula - once ruledwith an iron fist.Mike Ormsby’s first visited Romania in spring 1994 as a BBC reporter.Touched by the hospitality ...
Amazon Rating:
4 stars from 137 ratings