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The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest (edição 2014)

por Nick Thorpe (Autor)

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The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries. 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, beekeepers, smugglers and border policemen, legal and illegal immigrants, and many more.… (mais)
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Título:The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest
Autores:Nick Thorpe (Autor)
Informação:Yale University Press (2014), Edition: First Edition ~1st Printing, 328 pages
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Nick Thorpe likes to talk to people and they talk to him. The stories of people who live on the banks of the Danube are the voices in this book. There are voices of people who work on the river, farm around it and are trying to conserve the river and its wildlife. The river changes as he moves upstream from the Danube Delta to Germany. His journey is over one year in all sorts of weather and with different forms of transport, occasionally walking and cycling. For anyone interested in this magnificent river, take a read. ( )
  CarolKub | May 18, 2024 |
Az útikönyvek nagyjából két dolgon állnak, avagy buknak: hogy izgalmas helyre kalauzolnak-e el minket, illetve hogy izgalmas író kalauzol-e minket. Ami az első követelményt illeti, nincs semmi bibi, hisz a Duna a mi szimbolikus folyónk, keletet és nyugatot összekötő folyosó erős magyar vonatkozással, ismerős és mégis ismeretlen, erre bőven rá lehet építeni pár száz oldalt. Thorpe-pal sincs gond, jegyzett újságíró, nála szakmai követelmény, hogy jól írjon. Ráadásul szimpatikus ürge is, empatikus, fogékony a külső benyomásokra (ez se árt, ha újságíró valaki), jól egyensúlyoz prózájában a személyesség és a tényszerűség között, mer és tud anekdotázni – az a fajta manus, aki mellé az ember szívesen beülne egy vonatfülkébe egy hosszú, hosszú vonatúton, hogy ha véletlen elfogyna az olvasnivaló, elcseverésszenek kicsit. (De amíg nem fogy el – addig néma csönd!)

Csak hát azért mégse tökéletes. Thorpe-nak tagadhatatlanul van olyan rendező elve, amire fel tudja fűzni utazásának legtöbb elemét – mégpedig az ökológiai gondolat. Látszik rajta, mennyire aggódik a folyó ökoszisztémájáért, és meg is tudja értetni az olvasóval, hogy aggodalma jogos. Ez tehát rendben van, és rendben vannak szociológiai miniriportjai is, amiket azoktól csipeget össze, akikkel úton-útfélen találkozott. Ám hiányzik valami. Annyi minden eszembe jutott olvasás közben, annyi téma, amiről jó lett volna beszélgetni Thorpe-pal – például hogy nem olyan-e felfelé csorogni a Dunán, mint időutazást tenni Európa múltjából a jövője felé? Nem olyan-e ez a folyó, mint egy kötél, ami szétszakíthatatlanul köti össze ezt a múltat és jövőt, és egyben az elütő világértelmezéseket is? Ilyesmikről, na. De ezek a kérdések bennem maradtak. Szóval jó volt, persze, jó volt, csak azt hiszem, Thorpe jóval többet kapott ettől az utazástól, mint amennyit át tudott adni belőle nekem. ( )
  Kuszma | Jul 2, 2022 |
The Danube
A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest
Nick Thorpe
5/30/2016 10:50 AM

The author sets out to travel along the Danube, starting at Sulina, Romania, on the Black Sea coast, ending in Donnaueschingen. The Brigach and the Berg, two Alpine or Black Forest streams, come together there, to form the Danube. There is also a spring that flows into the Brigach, sometimes regarded as the source. The book is a wander, as this journalist talks to people along the way, reviews ancient and modern history. I read this in preparation for a similar trip planned for later this year, and chose it over a similar, but more philosophical book, because it was written more recently.
Thorpe is mostly interested in environmentalists, working to prevent or reverse damming and straightening the channels, and preserve fish stocks. The Danube delta is being overrun by wind turbines, threatening birds, but as Thorpe decries this development he does not notice later in the book that he hopes wind power will replace nuclear.
Interesting history, and it gave me general impressions of Turkish heritage with tombs of mystics, Roman conquests and defenses (especially Marcus Aurelius), Dacians, ancient copper workers and neolithic figurines, the battle of Mohacs, the Iron Gates gorge through the Carpathians.

"Fish should not swim in water three times - once in the river and once in the pot, then into wine in the stomach"
"Smoke and ash and a tale, or not even a tale" - Marcus Aurelius
"Man, a God when he dreams, barely more than a beggar when he thinks" - Friedrich Hoderlin ( )
  neurodrew | May 30, 2016 |
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The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries. 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, beekeepers, smugglers and border policemen, legal and illegal immigrants, and many more.

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