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Transylvania trekking; In search of eccentricities in Old World Romania.(TRAVEL)
The Washington Times
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November 8, 2003
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Byline: Sean Green, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Bram Stoker called Romania "one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe" and asserted that "every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians."
Stoker put the country on the proverbial map in his 1897 novel "Dracula," but he never even visited Romania. From the annals of a British library, he could not possibly have understood how wild and unknown this area was, and he certainly could not have known that this still would be the case more than a century later. ...
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