Patrick Leigh Fermor : noble encounters between Budapest and Transylvania / Michael O'Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Sullivan, Michael, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fermor, Patrick Leigh--Travel--Hungary.

Fermor, Patrick Leigh.

Fermor, Patrick Leigh--Travel--Romania--Transylvania.

Manners and customs.

Travel.

Hungary--Description and travel.

Hungary.

Transylvania (Romania)--Description and travel.

Transylvania (Romania).

Hungary--Social life and customs--20th century.

Transylvania (Romania)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Romania--Transylvania.

Romania.

Physical Description:

xv, 294 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Patrick Leigh Fermor: Noble Encounters Between Budapest and Transylvania is the extraordinary story of how one unknown young man charmed his way into the castles, manor houses, beds and lives of some of the most influential people in a part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire which was then on the cusp of tremendous change. This book records the history of a class, as witnessed by an exceptional young outsider in 1934 and also records what happened to many of them once the grim reality of Communism took hold in this part of East-Central Europe. It is also a portrait of Budapest in 1934, a grand city about to change forever."-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Budapest

Across the Alföld: The Great Hungarian Plain

The Banat

Transylvania.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: O'Sullivan, Michael, 1957- Patrick Leigh Fermor.

ISBN:

9786155225642

6155225648

OCLC:

1035797720