Alan E. Sparks 
Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of Central and Eastern Europe (Part 1 [EPUB ebook] 
The Eastern Mountains)

Preface: A Journey Inspired by Wolves – 5 – Introduction – 9 – Romania – 13 – Ukraine – 125 – APPENDIX A: Geography, Subdivisions, and Nomenclatures of the Carpathian Mountains – 246 – APPENDIX B: The Geography of the Ancient Kingdom of Dacia – 252 – APPENDIX C: The Acts of Union Forming the Uniat/Greek Catholic Church of Eastern Europe – 254 – APPENDIX D: The Political History of Transcarpathia during the Twentieth Century: A Hundred Years, Seven States – 256 – APPENDIX E: An Ethnography of the Carpatho-Rusyns – 260 – APPENDIX F: The Slavic Homeland: In the Shadow of the Carpathians? – 268 – APPENDIX G: The Founding, the Life, the Zenith, and the Decline of Kievan Rus’ – 271 – ABOUT THE AUTHOR – 277 – ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS – 278 – NOTES – 279 – BIBLIOGRAPHY – 332 – INDEX – 338 –

Alan E. Sparks is the award-winning author of ’Dreaming of Wolves’ and ’Into the Carpathians, ’ and has written articles about wolves for International Wolf Magazine and other publications. As a writer, teacher of English as a second language, commercial actor, and web designer – and as an avid hiker, wolf tracker and caretaker, and student of history and culture – he has lived, worked, and trekked extensively in the Carpathian Mountain region of Central and Eastern Europe.