Carpathian Games

Miloslav Nevrlý captivated first readers of the Carpathian Games in 1982. Since then the book has been published in eight Czech and one Romanian editions. Benjamin Lovett translated the masterpiece to English in 2020.

Over the years the Carpathian Games became a classical book of travel writing and this site was created so you can become one of many appreciating it. You can read the book chapter by chapter, browse through the chapters or download it for free.

Read more about the author and the project – this English edition of the Carpathian Games was published thanks to more than 300 donors and enthusiasm of volunteers

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Carpathian Games shall be available for download in January 2021.

Chapters

FOREWORD

A BROTHERLY WORD IN OPENING

THE GAME OF THE LIGHT-HEARTED PILGRIM

THE GAME OF THE PRINCE AND THE KING

THE GAME OF MORNING JOY

THE GAME STARRY NIGHTS

THE GAME OF THE EMERALD VOID OF TIME

THE GAME OF AMBROSIAL MEMORY

THE GAME OF DIAMOND-EDGED HEALTH


THE GAME OF HUNGER

THE GAME OF WOLF BREATHS AND GAZELLE LEAPS

THE GAME OF THE GRASS-SEEKER’S DELIGHT

THE GAME OF INNOCENT BROTHERS

THE GAME OF JOYFUL SIMPLICITY

THE GAME OF THE WAYFARER’S DELIGHT

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VLᾸDEASA
BIHOR

MUNTELE MARE
TRASCᾸU

SEMENIC
THE ANINA MOUNTAINS
RODNA
MARAMUREŞ

GIUMALᾸU
CᾸLIMAN
CEAHLᾸU
OBCINA MARE
HᾸŞMAŞ
GURGHIU
HARGHITA
BODOC
PENTELEU
VRANCEA
CIUCAŞ
SIRIU
PIATRA CRAIULUI
BUCEGI
IEZER-PᾸPUŞA
FᾸGᾸRAŞ

CINDREL
COZIA
LOTRU
ŞUREAN
CᾸPᾸŢÎNII
PARÎNG
RETEZAT
GODEANU
VÎLCAN
CERNEI
MEHEDINŢI

A BROTHERLY WORD IN CLOSING

MAP OF THE ROMANIAN CARPATHIANS

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROMANIA

AUTHOR’S NOTE

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FOREWORD

This book was not originally written for you. Nevertheless, it may well transform your perspective on hiking and the Carpathians. At least this is what it has done for many.  The Carpathian Games was intended for a circle of nature-loving fellows in the early 1980s in Czechoslovakia. It was published unofficially since its “truths were …

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VLᾸDEASA

THE FOAL MOUNTAINS. How long it has been since I visited them. First wonder at Carpathian expanses. Carved farmstead gates in Draganu Valley; old women on doorsteps weaving, embroidering. First time a-roving. First time struggling up steep wooded hillsides toward visions of a path pointed out in fog by a shepherd’s hand. Ceaţa the shepherd …

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