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    A Touch of Imagination: An Intelligent Traveler’s Guide to Hungary
    A Touch of Imagination: An Intelligent Traveler’s Guide to Hungary
    A Touch of Imagination: An Intelligent Traveler’s Guide to Hungary
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    A Touch of Imagination: An Intelligent Traveler’s Guide to Hungary

    By Chris Wilkinson

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    This book is mostly about one thing: Places in Hungary. Places in the sense of what they can tell us about Hungarian history, both natural and cultural. Places in the sense of how they can help us relocate the past not just in Hungary, but most importantly within ourselves.
    This book is probably best described as a series of essays written in both frustration and exultation.
    Frustration, at the guidebooks and popular sources that do not go deep enough into what makes Hungary one of the most fascinating places in Europe. Exultation at Hungary’s intermixture of both the dark and light hearted. It is a microcosm of the vicissitudes of European History. It has been built up, ran over, conquered and freed, torn apart and stitched together. It is constantly on the mend and tearing open old wounds. It is western, eastern and central European in its outlook. But most of all it is Hungarian. There is no place like it in Europe and I hope this book helps those who are interested understand it a little better. More than anything I hope it casts a fresh light on the Land of the Magyars. Please go there and see it for yourself. If you have been there once, go back again. It is worth a second look or in my case worth a lifetime.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Wilkinson
    Release dateJul 11, 2013
    ISBN9781301538478
    A Touch of Imagination: An Intelligent Traveler’s Guide to Hungary
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    Chris Wilkinson

    Chris Wilkinson was born in North Carolina, USA and now resides in South Dakota, USA where he is a Park Ranger specializing in Natural and Cultural Resource Interpretation and Education. He holds a B.S. in Political Science with an emphasis on International Studies. For five years he worked at Minuteman Missile National Historic Site close to Wall, South Dakota where he told the story of the Minuteman Missile's role in the Cold War. His interest in Eastern Europe and Hungary grew from this experience. He also has compelling interests in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the First World War in Eastern Europe and Hungarian history. Keep an eye out in the coming years for more books and articles by Chris about Hungary and East-Central Europe.

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