A communicative about the Elbe. A communicative about Europe

European civilisation has developed by means of a fewer large leaps: Rome, Renaissance, Enlightenment and the European Union. Of course, the EU’s function is inactive underway and thus we do not know what its end will look like. But what all these leaps have in common is their connection to the land. In this way, the communicative of the Elbe river and its surroundings is the communicative of European past as a whole.

I was commissioned to compose a book about the Elbe river by the Labirynt Publishing home in Czechia. I have known the publisher – Joachim Dvořák – since 1990. Labirynt is known for publishing good books with very good covers. That is why I was happy to receive its offer and more than anything else that the subject of my fresh book would be about the river. In my youth, I was racing in fast-flowing advanced rivers.