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001 2010052592
003 DLC
005 20111118082138.0
008 101222s2011 mau b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2010052592
020 $a9780151012718 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hpol
042 $apcc
043 $aee-----
050 00 $aPG7178.T28$bZ46813 2011
082 00 $a891.8/537$222
100 1 $aStasiuk, Andrzej,$d1960-
240 10 $aJadąc do Babadag.$lEnglish
245 10 $aOn the road to Babadag :$btravels in the other Europe /$cAndrzej Stasiuk ; translated from Polish by Michael Kandel.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,$c2011.
300 $a255 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-255).
520 $a"Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely evocative names. "The heart of my Europe," Stasiuk tells us, "beats in Sokolow, Podlaski, and in Husi, not in Vienna." Where did Moldova end and Transylvania begin, he wonders as he is being driven at breakneck speed in an ancient Audi--loose wires hanging from the dashboard--by a driver in shorts and bare feet, a cross swinging on his chest. In Comrat, a funeral procession moves slowly down the main street, the open coffin on a pickup truck, an old woman dressed in black brushing away the flies above the face of the deceased. On to Soroca, a baroque--Byzantine--Tatar--Turkish encampment, to meet Gypsies. And all the way to Babadag, between the Baltic Coast and the Black Sea, where Stasiuk sees his first minaret, "simple and severe, a pencil pointed at the sky." A brilliant tour of Europe's dark underside--travel writing at its very best"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A collection of travel narratives from Central and Eastern Europe by award-winning Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aStasiuk, Andrzej,$d1960-$vTranslations into English.
600 10 $aStasiuk, Andrzej,$d1960-$xTravel$zEurope, Eastern.
651 0 $aEurope, Eastern$vDescription and travel.
650 7 $aTRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aTRAVEL / Europe / Eastern$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aTRAVEL / Former Soviet Republics$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aTRAVEL / Road Travel$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Eastern$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Social History$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aTRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Continental European$2bisacsh.