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Honouring a deathbed pledge to his uncle, Michael Moran set out to travel the length and breadth of Poland in order to get an up-close perspective of the country. In this poignant and insightful account, he gives an insider’s view of a country set on a path of wrenching change while simultaneously confronting ghosts from the wartime and communist past. In chronicling the resurrection of the nation from war and the Holocaust, Moran paints a portrait of cities lost and gained, monumental castles, primeval forests, and picturesque landscape gardens among the finest yet least-known in Europe. This captivating journey into the heart of Poland is a timely and brilliant celebration of the return to the European fold of a valiant and richly cultured nation.
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Michael Moran is the author of Beyond the Coral Sea, shortlisted for the Thomas Cook travel literature prize in 2004.
In the early 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of communism, the author, an Australian by birth and a former concert pianist, accepted a job in Warsaw. His assignment was to “introduce Polish companies to the joys of the market economy.” Eager to explore the home of the Polish composer Chopin, he discovers a country still recovering from the destruction and poverty of World War II. But, looking beneath the ravaged surface, he also discovers a country rich in history and culture. In this respectful and entertaining book, Moran explores Poland, past and present, from the perspective of a visitor who came to work and fell in love with the country (he lives there still). Moran has a vivid, visually evocative writing style that may remind some readers of Bill Bryson: “The road was covered in detritus—pieces of wood, gravel, rocks, dead dogs and huge puddles of indeterminate depth.” An excellent account of a country that has undergone enormous devastation but is now taking tentative steps on the road to recovery. --David Pitt
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- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1847080014
- ISBN 13 9781847080011
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