Seen through British travellers’ eyes in the nineteenth century, the Carpathians in the Banat region and in Transylvania are sources of historical, geographic and ethnographic richness. English travel accounts have many common features, ranging from the wilderness of the landscape, the greatness of the mountains and their sublime, depicted in Major E. C. Johnson’s On the Track of the Crescent, to the melancholy feeling stirred in Charles Boner’s Transylvania: its products and its people. Some narratives are enriched with personal sketches of animate or inanimate features, military men, local peasants or milk women dressed in simple traditional costumes coming to Herculesbad or Băile Herculane, or the “magnificent scenery” on the banks of the Danube, the bubbling waters and whirlpools through the Kasan Pass. On the other hand, Transylvanian castles, such as Hunyadi Castle and the fortress of Deva, are depicted as imposing places which fall into ruin and desolation. It is also note-worthy and illustrative of the wilderness and the sublime of the mountains to make reference to Nina Elizabeth Mazuchelli’s travel memoir Magyarland: Being the Narrative of Our Travels through the Highlands and Lowlands of Hungary, in two volumes, with illustrations and Andrew F. Crosse’s Round About the Carpathians.