5/13/2023 0 Comments Transylvania by Bronwen Riley![]() ![]() Transylvania captures this vanishing world in words and pictures. : Transylvania (9780711227811) by Riley, Bronwen and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. 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. 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. ![]() It is a country of striking cultural contrasts: of Orthodox monasteries, Gothic churches and Communist follies. Streams run with silver, the mountains are full of gold, dinosaur nests are found in river beds and haystacks in trees. Indeed, although Transylvania is a real place, truth here is often stranger than fiction. It is the place where dragons live in Harry Potter and the country to which the Pied Piper spirited the children of Hamelin. ![]() Many people think Transylvania is a fictitious land, like Ruritania or Narnia. ![]()
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