UID:
almahu_9947415449202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (368 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511719905 (ebook)
Serie:
Cambridge library collection. Travel, Europe
Inhalt:
Novelist Emily Gerard (1849–1905) went with her husband, an officer in the Austrian army, to Transylvania for two years in 1883. Then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today a region of western Romania, Transylvania was little known to readers back in England. In the years following, she wrote this full-length account (published in 1888) as well as several articles on the region, which Bram Stoker used when researching the setting for Dracula. She describes her encounters with the different nationalities that made up the Transylvanian people: Romanians, Saxons and gypsies. Full of startling anecdotes and written in a novelistic style, her work combines her personal recollections with a detailed account of the landscape and people. The first volume recounts her first impressions and the superstitions and customs of the Romanian and Saxon populations. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=geraem
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2015).
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781108021609
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511719905
