BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest

    (By Nick Thorpe)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 25 MB (25,084 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 640 times
    Last checked 12 Hour ago!
    Author Nick Thorpe
    “Book Descriptions: The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, against the river’s flow, Nick Thorpe embarks on an inspiring year-long journey that leads to a new perspective on Europe today. Thorpe’s account is personal, conversational, funny, immediate, and uniquely observant—everything a reader expects in the best travel writing.   Immersing himself in the Danube’s waters during daily morning swims, Thorpe likewise becomes immersed in the histories of the lands linked by the river. He observes the river’s ecological conditions, some discouraging and others hopeful, and encounters archaeological remains that whisper of human communities sustained by the river over eight millennia. Most fascinating of all are the ordinary and extraordinary people along the way—the ferrymen and fishermen, workers in the fields, shopkeepers, beekeepers, waitresses, smugglers and border policemen, legal and illegal immigrants, and many more. For readers who anticipate their own journeys on the Danube, as well as those who only dream of seeing the great river, this book will be a unique and treasured guide.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Pas i kontrabas

    ★★★★★

    Saša Ilić

    Book 1

    The Postmistress of Paris

    ★★★★★

    Meg Waite Clayton

    Book 1

    Halič: Putovanie po stratenom svete

    ★★★★★

    Martin Pollack

    Book 1

    Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

    ★★★★★

    Ina Garten

    Book 1

    Bolla

    ★★★★★

    Pajtim Statovci

    Book 1

    Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

    ★★★★★

    Carlo Rovelli

    Book 1

    Untraceable

    ★★★★★

    Sergei Lebedev

    Book 1

    Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

    ★★★★★

    Jacob Mikanowski

    Book 1

    The Years

    ★★★★★

    Annie Ernaux

    Book 1

    Februar 33: Der Winter der Literatur

    ★★★★★

    Uwe Wittstock

    Book 1

    Fascism: A Warning

    ★★★★★

    Madeleine K. Albright

    Book 1

    The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China

    ★★★★★

    Robert D. Kaplan

    Book 1

    Utz

    ★★★★★

    Bruce Chatwin

    Book 1

    A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

    ★★★★★

    Milan Kundera

    Book 1

    Alias Emma (Alias Emma, #1)

    ★★★★★

    Ava Glass

    Book 1

    The Kindly Ones

    ★★★★★

    Jonathan Littell

    Book 1

    The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★★

    Martin Amis