Danube

Description

Product ID:	9781784871314
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Danube
Authors:	Author: Claudio Magris
Page Count:	432
Subjects:	European history, European history, History of ideas, Travel writing, History of ideas, Travel writing, Central Europe, Southeast Europe
Description:	Select Guide Rating WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGANIn this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. ''Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once'' *Independent on Sunday* WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vital crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam.
Imprint Name:	Vintage Classics
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2016-11-03

Weight	300 g
Dimensions	129 × 198 × 29 mm