Days and nights rise from the stream

Lothar-Günther Buchheim's early work: "Days and Nights Rise from the River" is the first book by the then eighteen-year-old Lothar-Günther Buchheim. It is a captivating autobiographical account by the adventurer about a canoe trip from Passau downstream to the mouth of the Danube in the Black Sea, immediately before the outbreak of World War II. During this journey, he covered 1735 kilometers and, at its stops – Transylvania, the Carpathians, Bukovina, and Constanta – witnessed primeval landscapes and archaic ways of life.
The author impresses with his spontaneity, great linguistic expressiveness, and vivid imagery. It is the first testimony of a highly talented writer who describes his observations and encounters with keen senses and illustrates them with his drawings.
With the original drawings of the author, also famous as a painter and art collector.


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