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"Plague in Poland called a temporary halt to the turbulent career of Prince Ferenc Rakoczi II of Transylvania. A dramatic flight from Danzig, a stormy voyage up a pirate-infested Baltic and a crossing of a North sea menaced by French privateers brought him and his tiny retinue to Hull, where his ship was placed in quarantine; the Transylvanians - one of them the author of this book - were obliged to spend Christmas 1711 at anchor in the Humber estuary." "There was in Ferenc II's retinue a young nobleman named Kelemen Mikes. He was widely read in Latin and French, and left no small corpus of…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2016Corvina · 328 pages · 9789631363371
- Other · English · 2000Kegan Paul International · 268 pages · 9780710306104
CorrespondenceEarly works to 1800HungariansDescription and travelRakoczy, francis, 1676-1735Turkey, description and travelHungarians, foreign countriesHISTORY / Europe / General