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100	1		_aQuin, Michael J. _q(Michael Joseph), _d1796-1843
245	1	2	_aA steam voyage down the Danube, vol. 1 of 2
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-03-07
508			_aRichard 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			_a"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. 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			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Richard Bentley, 1835
653			_aEurope -- Description and travel
653			_aDanube River
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/steamvoyagedownd01quinuoft/
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78133
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