Publisher's Synopsis
Written in the 19th Century, the author reveals to us his idea behind this book: I wanted to write this book from the perspective of a native Hungarian so as for the reader to relate closer to the history and its people. I undertook a task which was out of the range of my previous literary undertakings, which had for the most part been devoted to the geography, history, and philology of Central Asia. LessI undertook a task which was out of the range of my previous literary undertakings, which had for the most part been devoted to the geography, history, and philology of Central Asia. The principal reason which induced me to enter upon what is for me a new literary field, was my desire to make American and English readers acquainted with the record of a country that after visiting it several times has never stopped to amaze and inspire me, and to present the various phases of the history of Hungary in the light best suited to attract the attention of the citizens of England and of the Great Republic, to whose opinion Hungarians are by no means indifferent. I wanted to write this book from the perspective of a native Hungarian so as for the reader to relate closer to the history and its people.
