- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Granta Books; First Edition edition (7 April 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1847080014
- ISBN-13: 978-1847080011
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 561,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Conde Nast Traveller, Giles Foden
`Wonderful'
Wanderlust magazine
'Literary travel writing at its best: elegiac, informative and profound... probably the best travel book I will read this year.'
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Many years had passed before I was able to keep that deathbed pledge to my uncle. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Many years had passed before I was able to keep that deathbed pledge to my uncle. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Astonishingly Erudite,
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This review is from: A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland (Paperback)
If you want to read a well-written book about Poland that digs deeper than the usual superficialities, then here's a good place to start. Moran clearly fell in love with the country as well as with a Pole. He writes clearly and informatively about places, people and language; he has an eye for detail and great sensitivity to the complexities of the culture and history of the country and the region, which many non-Poles have difficulty with, and which we should be grateful for. In some ways it's a curious read, as he mingles his work and personal life with his travels and explorations of the country, but in the end the whole works well and reads well and the picture of Poland is the richer for it. And then, when you want more, links for further reading are there, in this very erudite and readable book.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Atmospheric, infomative and very entertaining,
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This review is from: A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland (Hardcover)
I am sure that Edmund Burke was correct in his assessment of Poland as `a country in the moon'. It seems to be a country of very remarkable features, as is the moon if current exploration is to be believed.Michael Moran's deathbed pledge to his concert pianist uncle to travel to Poland has been redeemed a thousand-fold I would say. His homage to Chopin's country is, in its own right, a polonaise because it "breathes and paints the whole national character" (Brodzinski) from the sublime (the national pride, courage and resilience) through the villainous (crooks, collaborators with the enemy etc.) to the ridiculous (petty bureaucracy including the police and licensing agencies etc.). He has certainly sought out and found the very Heart of Poland I feel. Stendhal's pseudonymous observation that "a travel diary should be full of sensations" is eloquently upheld by this book - it is amazingly atmospheric. The visit to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau is a particularly poignant example of this. Of course I was already aware of the horrors of this place but Moran's description has left an even greater indelible impression than I had before. It should never be forgotten. The book is so well written that one is finally left with a very positive view of a very proud nation with an indomitable spirit underpinned by a deep-seated faith. In conclusion I would say that Michael Moran has captured the Zeitgeist of the Poland of today and, indeed, of yesterday and of tomorrow.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Great read,
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This review is from: A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland (Hardcover)
I found this book excellent, a very good introduction to Polish history and probably the best guidebook of Poland I have ever read. Also a good reminder for me as a Polish person, what Poland used to be like in early 1990s - good those days are gone... Highly recommended.Cheers
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