The Danube Flows Through Fascism: Nine Hundred Miles in a Fold-Boat 1938 William Van Til ~ Central Europe travelogue & political attitudes

Title: The Danube Flows Through Fascism: Nine Hundred Miles in a Fold-Boat

Author: William Van Til

Description: First Edition, with Scribner's 'A' on copyright page. Salmon-colored cloth covered boards with lettering stamped in black. Spine a bit faded; light blemishing to covers. Previous owner's label and brief gift inscription on front endpapers, else clean and unmarked. Pages lightly toned. Illustrated with nearly fifty photographs on plates, plus several maps. xiii + 301 pages.

An anti-fascist travelogue, describing a boat journey down the Danube in 1937 by the then assistant professor of social studies at Ohio State University, William Van Til (1911-2006). As he describes his and his wife's travels from Ulm, Germany through Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia on their fold-boat (a more transportable type of canoe), he observes the ''slimy mess,'' the socio-political atmosphere and attitudes of the people in central Europe. A combination of travel writing and political dismay. Published in early August 1938, one month before Germany's invasion of Poland and the beginning of the Second World War.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place: New York - London
Year: 1938

Keywords: travel, travelogue, Europe, central Europe, Germany, 1930s, European, attitudes, anti-fascist,