"Magyarland" Volume 1 (of 2) : being the narrative of our travels through the…
"Magyarland" Volume 1 (of 2) by Nina Elizabeth Mazuchelli is a travel narrative written in the late 19th century. It follows an English traveler across Hungary’s plains and mountains, weaving lyrical landscape writing with history, folklore, and on-the-spot portraits of Magyars, gipsies, and other ethnic communities, all anchored by practical, sometimes humorous, episodes of overland travel with a local guide. The opening of the book evokes Buda and Pest in twilight, unfolding
as a reverie through Roman, Hunnic, Magyar, Ottoman, and Christian eras before the journey begins in earnest: from England to Paris, on to Venice, and across to Hungary by little-used routes and uncertain timetables. The narrator equips for cross-country travel (a bunda, rope, compact cooking gear), celebrates and fears the vast Alföld, and endures slow, turf-fueled trains, shabby inns, and striking village scenes, while sketching Hungary’s polyglot character and the lore and reality of brigandage. Vivid set pieces include the desolate Pragerhof wayside stop, the mirage-haunted Puszta with shepherds and gipsy camps, a tender railway vignette of a child sent to a Pest hospital, and the crossing of Lake Balaton to Fűred with a gipsy serenade at night. Practical needs bring a guide, András, into the story; local life appears in returning herds, Tihany’s fossil legends, and a hillside encounter with tent gipsies, leading to reflections on gipsy music, livelihoods, language links to India, and the stubborn pull of the wandering life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Mazuchelli, Nina Elizabeth, 1832-1914 |
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| Title | "Magyarland" Volume 1 (of 2) : being the narrative of our travels through the highlands and lowlands of Hungary |
| Original Publication | London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. |
| Credits | Peter Becker, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | DB: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Subject | Hungary -- Description and travel |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77586 |
| Release Date | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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