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100 1 _aMazuchelli, Nina Elizabeth,
_d1832-1914
245 1 1 _a"Magyarland," volume 2 (of 2)
246 1 _aMagyarland, volume 2 : travels through the snowy Carpathians and great Alfőld of the Magyar
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-13
508 _aPeter Becker, Karin Spence 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"Magyarland," volume 2 (of 2) by Nina Elizabeth Mazuchelli is a travel narrative written in the late 19th century. It follows the author and her companion with their fiery, resourceful guide András across Hungary and its frontiers, mixing lively incident with history, ethnography, and landscape. The journey moves from the Lower Danube’s Roman traces to Transylvanian baths, mountain passes, and the Alföld, portraying Magyars, Wallachs, and other peoples in vivid, on-the-spot scenes. The opening of the book finds the travellers crossing into Roumania at Szörény amid strict passport checks, beggars, and a comic-violent spat that András settles with a whip before they visit the site of Trajan’s Bridge at Turnu Severin and move on to Orsova. They explore the Kroncapelle where the Crown of St. Stephen was hidden, the island-fortress of New Orsova still occupied by Turks, and reflect on Kossuth’s exile before a rough ascent above the Danube—she riding an improvised “chair” saddle—among shepherds, eagles, and stupendous crags. After market-day scenes and Trajan’s Tablet in the Kasan Pass, a furious three-horse dash up the Czerna valley leads to Mehadia’s Hercules Baths, their sulphurous springs, Roman relics, and a swirl of visitors; a Wallach girl’s refusal to sell her woven girdle underscores peasant pride. A night train across the Banát brings a political exchange with a sorrowful old Magyar, then Temesvár’s polyglot bustle and the story of the Banát’s transformation. At András’s master’s estate on the plains, dinner talk unpacks Magyar’s agglutinative grammar, daily visits show sturdy rural comfort, and the “family pedigree” carriage grows with each child; a headlong drive over the puszta ends with the exuberant csárdás. The section closes at Grosswardein with moonlit promenades, constant music, and a concise sketch of Wallach origins and language as traditional costume begins to yield to new fashions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881
653 _aHungary -- Description and travel
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/magyarlandbeingn01lond
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78675
999 _c119393
_d119393