“…Born at the end of the 19th century in Vienna, Max Steiner was considered a musical wunderkind. …”

“…Describing the story of travelers who interacted, met, and visited the places they stopped, Constantin Ardeleanu creates a transnational history of travel up and down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople. The pleasures and sometimes the travails of the travelers unfold against a backdrop of technical and economic transformation in the crucial period of modernization…”

“…Alexander Graf is Senior Project Manager and Research Fellow at Vienna University of Economics and Business. Stefanie Degreif is Deputy Head of Resources and Transport at the Oeko Institute…”