Eddy Kester - Hungary - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

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ISBN 978 1 85733 868 3

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First published in Great Britain

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59 Hutton Grove, London N12 8DS

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Cover image: The nineteenth-century diamond patterned roof tiles of the restored late Gothic Matthias Church in the heart of Budas Castle District, Budapest. Shutterstock

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Images on the following pages reproduced under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: SZERVC Attila.

Reproduced under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license: Marc Ryckaert (MJJR).

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About the Author

BRIAN McLEAN is a British translator and journalist who, after periods in Japan and Austria, settled in Hungary in 1977. He is the author of Escape Routes: Ten Excursions from Budapest. He has translated about fifty, mainly scholarly, books, including Gabriella Ballas Herend(an illustrated history of the porcelain factory), Political Economy of Socialismby Jnos Kornai, and The Holy Crown of Hungaryby Endre Tth and Kroly Szelnyi.

KESTER EDDY is a British journalist, primarily in print, but with stints on radio and television. He traveled widely in Europe, Asia, and Southern Africa as a photographic journalist before settling in Budapest in 1986, from where he has reported on Hungary and the region for outlets such as the Financial Times, Economist Intelligence Unit, and Business New Europe-Intellinews.

The Culture Smart! series is continuing to expand. All Culture Smart! guides are available as e-books, and many as audio books.

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The publishers would like to thank CultureSmart!Consulting for its help in researching and developing the concept for this series.

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