A steam voyage down the Danube, vol. 1 of 2 (Registro nro. 118853)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | DB |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Quin, Michael J. |
| Fuller form of name | (Michael Joseph), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1796-1843 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A steam voyage down the Danube, vol. 1 of 2 |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-03-07 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Richard Illner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "A steam voyage down the Danube, vol. 1 of 2" by Michael J. Quin is a travel narrative written in the early 19th century. It charts a steamboat journey down the Danube toward the Black Sea, blending on-the-spot observation with sketches of Hungarian, Wallachian, Servian, and Turkish life, landscape, and politics. Expect vivid scenes of river travel, emerging steam navigation, and a lively cast of fellow voyagers, all filtered through a curious, sociable, and sharp-eyed narrator.<br/><br/>The opening of the narrative frames the journey with a preface on the limits of Danube steam navigation, Russian control of the delta, and the promise of freer passage in future, then launches into the voyage from Pest. The narrator boards at night, is jolted awake by a chattering congress of Hungarian ladies, sketches Pest and Buda (and the push for a toll-funded stone bridge), and details river life—floating mills, lumber and “fruit” boats, and roadside teams of horses. Aboard are Tyrolese emigrants, Hungarian nobles, a luckless but magnetic Moldavian adventurer, and a Spanish-speaking Servian Jew and his daughter; the captain is a prickly Englishman, the river unexpectedly shallow, and the boat repeatedly in danger of grounding. Stops at Tolna and Mohacs bring comic scrambles for lodging, clouds of dogs, village quiet, industrious women hauling fuel, and talk of Hungarian politics and rural unrest; evenings feature Tyrolese songs and riotous card games. The ship passes Peterwardein, Neusatz, Semlin, and Belgrade under strict quarantine rules, with plague rumors in the air, then sweeps into grand reaches and islanded shallows bathed in striking sunsets. After storms and more sandbanks, the party dwindles; at Moldava the shallows force a shift to a fisherman’s flat boat for the Orsova stretch, and the scene closes amid Wallachian and Servian river commerce, a striking village beauty at her distaff, swarms of begging children, and the first steepening of the mountain chain through which the river has carved its gorge. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Richard Bentley, 1835 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Europe -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Danube River |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/steamvoyagedownd01quinuoft/">https://archive.org/details/steamvoyagedownd01quinuoft/</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78133">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78133</a> |
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