Romania revisited:

This book is the definitive story of the journeys made by English travelers to Romania between 1602 and 1941. The author interweaves the impressions of previous generations into the witty account of his own journeys made in the summer and winter of 1998. Although the chapters are arranged to follow his own route, the author successfully integrates earlier writers into his narrative by linking them to towns and places. Starting with the Transylvanian adventures of Captain John Smith (of Pocahantas fame) in 1602, and the bibliography is the most detailed inventory yet published of English travel writing in Romania. The author, with his unerring sense of human nature has selected those passages which throw light upon the attitudes of earlier travelers and highlight some of their more amusing antics. The author's own journey is a comprehensive and perspicacious review of today's Romania which focuses on the heritage and art of the country, as well as being a delightful account of his own e