Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Tirol und Baiern nach Wien, : $b nebst einer romantisch pittoresken Darstellung mehrerer Ritterburgen und ihrer Volkssagen, Gebirgsgegenden und Eisglätscher auf dieser Wanderung, unternommen im Jahre 1825 von Joseph Kyselak. (2/2)
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"Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg,…." by Joseph Kyselak is a travelogue written in the early 19th century. The work traces a long walking journey across the Austrian lands—especially the Tyrol—blending alpine scenery, folk tales, local customs, and reflections on recent patriotic struggles. It reads as both mountaineering report and ethnographic portrait, with a first-person traveler and his dog moving through valleys, fairs, huts, and high passes.
The opening of Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg,…. finds the narrator entering Tyrol at night through dense forest, losing and regaining his dog after a likely wolf chase, and sleeping in a woodcutter’s hut before descending toward Gerlos. He sketches the wild Gerlos region—senn huts, a powerful timber-rafting weir, abundant trout, wolves preying on cattle, and stark poverty signaled by Kleie bread—then reaches Zell’s church fair, describing raucous dancing, sho
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