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Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary - With Some Remarks on the State of Vienna during the Congress in the Year 1814 (Paperback)
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Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary - With Some Remarks on the State of Vienna during the Congress in the Year 1814 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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Richard Bright (1789 1858), pioneer in research on kidney disease,
fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and
Physician-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, describes his
observations while travelling in Eastern Europe in this book, first
published in 1818. He had set off to witness the closing stages of
the Congress of Vienna in 1814, and having spent the winter
observing the various heads of state, courtiers and politicians, he
decided to travel further east, to areas little visited or
understood by the British. Although full of factual details and
statistics, the book also pays attention to subjects such as the
importance of agriculture in an area little touched as yet by the
Industrial Revolution, and Gypsies, who greatly intrigued Bright.
An appendix contains ten pieces covering a variety of topics,
including the coronation of Joseph I as King of Hungary in 1687,
and a comparative vocabulary of Gypsy words.
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