'Midst the Wild Carpathians

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Salvator Rosa and Lambert de Hondt (II). Transylvania in the 1660s: a young prince, a scheming wife, the Turks at the border and a mountain country that has learned to survive by playing everyone against everyone. Jókai read out the demands of the 1848 revolution on the museum steps in Pest and spent his life writing Hungary into e...