Danube

By Claudio Magris, Patrick Creagh (translator),

Book cover of Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea

Book description

A journey along this famous river described by the author, Claudio Magris, who unravels the amazing history of the many towns along its banks.

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On the face of it, this seems like a straightforward book. Magris traces the geography of the Danube from Furtwangen or Donauschingen in southern Germany to the Black Sea, and in so doing surveys the history of the regions through which it passes. That would be a bold enough project in its own right, but the book itself is so much more than this and is one that I’ve returned to many times since I first stumbled across it fifteen years ago. The riverine structure of the book sweeps the reader from prehistory to the twentieth century and back again,…

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