Nick Thorpe

Nick Thorpe is a writer, BBC correspondent, and filmmaker who has been based in Budapest for three decades. He is the author of The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest, and ‘89: The Unfinished Revolution.

“The Danube River Project” explores the waterway using underwater equipment to show scenes—like this one of Budapest—partly above and partly below the surface.

Austria

How the Danube Became a Multinational Power Source

Spanning 1,770 miles from Germany's Black Forest to the coast of Romania, the river takes its character from the people and places it passes

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