{"product_id":"the-land-beyond-the-forest-facts-figures-and-fancies-from-transylvania-paperback-9781108021616","title":"The Land Beyond the Forest; Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108021616","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Land Beyond the Forest\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFacts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGerard's informative and highly readable travelogue about the country and people of Transylvania inspired Bram Stoker when writing Dracula.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmily Gerard (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108021616, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 February 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e402 pages, 22 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 2.3 x 14 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNovelist 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 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 second volume covers the gypsy and Jewish populations, as well as Gerard's mixed feelings on leaving the country. For more information on this author, see http:\/\/orlando.cambridge.org\/public\/svPeople?person_id=geraem\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e27. Roumanian superstition continued. Animals, weather, mixed superstitions, spirits, shadows, etc.\u003cbr\u003e 28. Saxon superstition. Remedies, witches, weather-makers\u003cbr\u003e 29. Saxon superstition continued. Animals, plants, days\u003cbr\u003e 30. Saxon customs and dramas\u003cbr\u003e 31. Buried treasures\u003cbr\u003e 32. The Tziganes. Liszt and Lenau\u003cbr\u003e 33. The Tziganes. Their life and occupations\u003cbr\u003e 34. The Tziganes. Humour, proverbs, religion and morality\u003cbr\u003e 35. The gipsy fortune-teller\u003cbr\u003e 36. The Tzigane musician\u003cbr\u003e 37. Gipsy poetry\u003cbr\u003e 38. The Szekels and Armenians\u003cbr\u003e 39. Frontier regiments\u003cbr\u003e 40. Wolves, bears, and other animals\u003cbr\u003e 41. A Roumanian village\u003cbr\u003e 42. A gipsy camp\u003cbr\u003e 43. The Bruckenthals\u003cbr\u003e 44. Still-life at Hermanstadt. A Transylvanian Cranford\u003cbr\u003e 44. Fire and blood. The Hermanstadt murder\u003cbr\u003e 46. The Klausenburg carnival\u003cbr\u003e 47. Journey from Hermanstadt to Kronstadt\u003cbr\u003e 48. Kronstadt\u003cbr\u003e 49. Sinala\u003cbr\u003e 50. Up the mountains\u003cbr\u003e 51. The Bulea See\u003cbr\u003e 52. The Wienerwald. A digression\u003cbr\u003e 53. A week in the pine-region\u003cbr\u003e 54. La Dus and Bistra\u003cbr\u003e 55. A night in the Stina\u003cbr\u003e 56. Farewell to Transylvania. The enchanted garden.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005233320216,"sku":"9781108021616","price":34.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108021616i.jpg?v=1694869648","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-land-beyond-the-forest-facts-figures-and-fancies-from-transylvania-paperback-9781108021616","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}