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Landscapes, moods, encounters, reflections, and stories of a Sternean traveller who journeys down the old river, from its source to the Black Sea, with compassion and humour, retracing both the course of his own life and the seasons of contemporary culture, its beliefs and its anxieties.

An itinerary somewhere between novel and essay, this book portrays culture as an existential experience and reconstructs, like a mosaic, the civilisations of Central Europe through the places visited and explored — in all the complex diversity of its peoples and cultures — tracing their contours through the landmarks of grand History and the fleeting traces of everyday life.

An outward journey, then, and an inner adventure: meticulous scholarly documentation becomes the raw material for fiction and fantastical digression, as a traveller curious about places, books and people weaves a little Danubian Decameron of stories and events, individual and collective destinies caught in the currents of the river and the passage of time.

The Danube becomes a labyrinthine journey in search of the meaning of life and history, across the atlas of old Europe and our present-day world.