Danube, Claude Magris

A fascinating journey through the history and culture of the Danube lands, from the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. In each town the author, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiousity is limitless, raises the ghosts of the famous and the obscure, but no less intriguing, personalities to navigate through the tumult of the area's history, literature, and mythology.