Clear Waters Rising

Originally published in 1996 by Viking, a travel book describing the author's seventeen-month walk along the chaiin of mountains stretching across Europe from Cape Finistere to Istanbul, exploring the mountain wilderness and meeting its people who live on the periphery of the modern world.

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This is the story of a journey of 10,000 kilometres across Europe from the Atlantic coast of Spain to Istanbul. Nick Crane completed this adventure entirely on foot. It took him 17 months crossing Europe's uplands from the Cantabrian mountains of Spain via the Alps and the Carpathians to the Balkans and finally the Black Sea. His aim was to find for himself Europe's last mountain wildernesses and to record the lives of its people living at the periphery of the modern world. The journey was also to become a test of his own physical and mental determination. Most of the time he was far from civilization, sleeping in caves, forests and snow-drifts, confronting cold, loneliness, genuine dangers and imagined fears.