I loved reading this, beyond my love affair with the countries that intersect with this river.

Danube exemplifies how geography can become a lens for understanding culture and human experience. It is a luminous meditation on Central European history, culture, and landscape.

Framed as a journey along the river from its source to the Black Sea, the book weaves travelogue, historical essay, and literary reflection. Magris attends to the mingling of German, Hungarian, Czech, and Balkan voices, tracing the shifting borders, political upheavals, and cultural memory of the region.

With an introduction by the prolific Richard Flanagan, the copy is near new condition.