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User Review - johnwbeha - LibraryThingVery disappointing. It was brought for me to accompany a cruise on the eponymous river, but it found it generally tedious, dealing as it did with vast numbers of people whose names I did not even ... Read full review
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User Review - mattresslessness - LibraryThingSlightly tempting to compare Magris' cultural dredging of the Danube with something equally ambitious like Rebecca West's Black Lamb Grey Falcon, but whereas West's book of half-credulous received ... Read full review
Contents
A Question of Gutters | 13 |
The Universal Danube of Engineer Neweklowsky 5 5 | 61 |
IntheWachau | 125 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Danube: a sentimental journey from the source to the Black Sea |
| Author | Claudio Magris |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Collins Harvill, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | Jul 13, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0002720744, 9780002720748 |
| Length | 416 pages |
| Subjects | › › Danube River Danube River Valley Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers Travel / Europe / General |
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