Transylvanian Roots:
The True Life Adventures of a Hungarian American
by Michael Kosztarab

• "The early morning sky over Budapest was dark with clouds. A misty fine rain was falling and washing the almost empty, blood-stained streets.
  "Only some Soviet soldiers, with gloomy faces, were slowly removing the cobblestones used for barricades against their troops and tanks by the freedom fighters just a few days earlier.
  "It was the 18th of November 1956. The Hungarian Nation was on general strike against the Soviet invaders and their puppet Hungarian government, which had been organized on Soviet soil and sent to 'pacify' the Nation ..."

• So begins Michael Kosztarab's story of his life -- a record of adventures and narrow escapes, of hard work, perseverance, ingenuity, and scientific endeavor that have taken him to every continent except Antarctica, where he has met people from all walks of life and has observed the natural world.

• The book is graced with ethnographic illustrations by Zoltan Albert, photographs, and several maps, and with Kosztarab's humor and thoughtful discussion of political, educational, and common-sense matters.

• ISBN 978-0-936015-72-9
  • viii + 224 pages, 8 1/4 inches x 10 1/2 inches, paperback
  • $16.95 plus shipping, per copy
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