Ce face at\u00e2t de deosebit acest volum, \u00een avalan\u015fa de ghiduri cu care este inundat\u0103 pia\u0163a de carte? For\u0163a lui de sintez\u0103, faptul c\u0103 acoper\u0103 mii de kilometri \u015fi mii de ani de cultur\u0103 \u00een doar dou\u0103 sute de pagini \u015fi, apoi, c\u0103 izbute\u015fte s\u0103 comunice informa\u0163ii esen\u0163iale \u00eentr-un limbaj plastic, care sugereaz\u0103 continuu fiorul descoperirii \u015fi bucuria \u00eent\u00e2lnirii cu detalii atipice sau necunoscute.<\/p>\n
De\u015fi fiecare ora\u015f sau regiune pe care o acoper\u0103 este \u00eenso\u0163it de planuri \u015fi h\u0103r\u0163i, de sfaturi \u015fi informa\u0163ii practice privind clima, moneda local\u0103, transporturile \u00een comun sau adresele de neocolit, exist\u0103 \u00eentotdeauna \u015fi ceva \u00een plus: curiozit\u0103\u0163ile fiec\u0103rei zone, detaliile revelatoare trecute de al\u0163ii cu vederea, traseele unice, fulgura\u0163ia unui moment inefabil. Toate acestea sunt puse \u00een valoare de o suit\u0103 cople\u015fitoare de fotografii proaspete, ale unei Europe pe l\u00e2ng\u0103 care am trecut, f\u0103r\u0103 de fapt s-o vedem.<\/p>\n
De la splendorile arhitecturale ale Sankt Petersburgului la canalele din Amsterdam, de la forfota \u015fi culorile \u0163ip\u0103toare din marginea estic\u0103 a continentului – Istanbul – la extremitatea nordic\u0103 a Cercului Arctic, surprins \u00een plin\u0103 iarn\u0103 finlandez\u0103, de la colinele s\u0103lbatice \u015fi aride din Highlands la Italia baroc\u0103 sau renascentist\u0103, suntem invita\u0163i s\u0103 r\u0103t\u0103cim \u015fi s\u0103 ne r\u0103sf\u0103\u0163\u0103m \u00een 50 de locuri speciale, atent alese de un scriitor care reu\u015fe\u015fte s\u0103 ne seduc\u0103 prin fiecare fraz\u0103.<\/p>\n
\u00centrebat odat\u0103 de ce cite\u015fte a\u015fa de mult, Hemingway a spus c\u0103 o face pentru c\u0103-i permite s\u0103 tr\u0103iasc\u0103 vie\u0163ile altora. La fel se \u00eent\u00e2mpl\u0103 \u015fi cu c\u0103l\u0103toriile lui Mike Gerrard: citindu-le, ai sentimentul c\u0103 tr\u0103ie\u015fti mai multe vie\u0163i deodat\u0103.<\/p>\n
Mike Gerrard, “Ghidul c\u0103l\u0103torului. Europa”, Editura Litera, Bucure\u015fti, 2011<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
O c\u0103l\u0103torie printre frumuse\u0163ile Europei, propus\u0103 de un “scriitor de c\u0103l\u0103torii”, care a b\u0103tut b\u0103tr\u00e2nul continent \u00een lung \u015fi-n lat, cu vaporul, la pas, cu ma\u015fina sau bicicleta. Un voiaj stenic, \u00een care singura problem\u0103 cu care se confrunt\u0103 cititorul e doar s\u0103 hot\u0103rasc\u0103 ce anume i-a pl\u0103cut mai mult dintre minunile \u00eent\u00e2lnite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7194],"tags":[7181,7193,22963,438,9022,24006,244],"class_list":["post-50009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carte","tag-calatorii","tag-carte","tag-editura-litera","tag-europa","tag-ghid","tag-mike-gerrard","tag-turism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67057,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50009\/revisions\/67057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}