<p>Excerpt from Austria: Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube; Galicia, Styria, Moravia, Bukovina, and the Military FrontierAll the charming vineyards, and all the comfortable country-boxes that smiled over to us from the other side of the Elbe; all the cheerful Saxon villages of the Dresden plain; all the peaceful townsfolk of Dresden, whom we were leaving behind na - all seemed to be reproaching me for leaving them; and every time that a labourer by the roadside looked up at our wand vehicle, he looked as though he would say to me, Friend, stay at home, and earn thy bread like an honest man. Perhaps when Napoleon retreated over the same ground, after the battle of Culm, the Saxon villages may have ken to him in the same strain. He might still be reigning in France, he known better how to stay at home.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.</p>

Austria: Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube; Galicia, Styria, Moravia, Bukovina, and the Military Frontier (Classic Reprint)

Politics & Social Sciences

Kohl, J.G

Social Sciences

Forgotten Books

Russia st Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkoff, Riga, Odessa, the German Provinces on the Baltic

Travel

Asia

Ayer Co. Pub

At the end of the 1830s, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, two famous accounts, through foreign eyes, were being written about Russia. By far the better known one is the Marquis de Custine's Russia in 1839. For all its brilliance, however, it doesn't begin to compete with J. G. Kohl's slightly later work, just called Russia, when it comes to thoroughness, range and sympathy of observation. Kohl was a German. Unlike de Custine, who only made a brief visit, he spent several years in Russia. He assimilated himself, learnt the language and enjoyed the experience. He set himself the task of writing about 'general features and popular manners of a large portion of the Russian Empire'. and succeeded with warm-heartedness and tolerance. It is refreshing to read such a positive account. For example, St Petersburg appeared to him not only a beautiful but a cheerful city with its dashing izvoztchiks, its crowded market-places, its frequent fetes, when high and low mixed together. He was not afraid of paradox, of Russia itself writing, 'There is perhaps no country in the world where all classes are so intimately connected with each other as in this vast empire, or so little divided into castes. Contrary to the prevailing belief, in no country are the extremes of society brought into more frequent contact, and in few are the transitions from one class to another more frequent or sudden. The peasant becomes a priest on the same day perhaps than an imperial mandate degrades the noble to a peasant or to a Siberian colonist. Hereditary rank is disregarded while public services often lead rapidly to the highest dignities. Even serfs are more nomadic in their habits than our free German peasants.' The English translation was first published in 1842.

Russia: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkoff, Riga and Odessa, The German Provinces on the Baltic, The Steppes, The Crimea and the Interior of the Empire

Faber and Faber

HISTORY OF THE STATE OF MINE

History

BiblioLife

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The Kohl Collection of Maps Relating to America (Now in the Library of Congress

Reference

WINSOR, JUSTIN

Library of Congress Map Division

Catalogs & Directories

Martino Pub

Die Geographische Lage der Hauptstädte Europa's (German Edition)

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

de Gruyter

Die Völker Europa's (German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh

Geschichte der Entdeckungsreisen und Schifffahrten zur Magellan-Straße und zu den ihr benachbarten Ländern und Meeren (German Edition)

<p>Bei dem heute noch in Bremen-Grohn angesiedelten und bereits im Jahre 1545 gegründeten Haus Seefahrt handelt es sich um den ältesten europäischen Sozialfonds. Dieses Buch aus dem Jahre 1862 zeichnet seine spannende Geschichte vom 15. bis ins 18. Jahrhundert nach und beschreibt, wie es zu dieser einmaligen Fusion von Schiffern und Kaufleuten kam, die heute noch Bestand hat und mit dem von ihr ausgerichteten "Schaffermahl" bundesweite Aufmerksamkeit erregt.</p>

Das Haus Seefahrt in Bremen (German Edition)

Europe

Europäischer Hochschulverlag GmbH & Co. KG

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