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Engadine, Switzerland, June 30, 2007. Dario Agostini hugs his wife and son, waves goodbye and plunges into his kayak on the Inn river. He plans to paddle through the heart of the Alps to reach the Danube and then follow that road of water through the Balcans to the Black Sea. He'll reach Istanbul on September 17. It has taken him 504 hours in 80 days to paddle along 3860 kilometres through 10 States. A long solo journey on his water road. Dario might write an adventure book. But that is not what he has in mind. He takes daily notes in a journal, which is not a travel log, but rather a collection of thoughts, impressions, feelings. Bidding him good luck on the Inn riverside, together with his wife and son, there was also a friend of his. Davide Sapienza is a poet and a writer, author of books about Nature and the Spirit of places. Dario would like him to write about the Spirit of waters so he sends him a sms daily and, when he is back home, hands him his journal. That is the genesis of this book. In The Water was the Road the main character is the Water that accompanies the man in the frail light frame boat and tells his story. A story with no tragedy or disaster; just a quiet dialogue between Man and Water about stillness and continuity, and the Mistery that urges Man to tread along the paths of the world.
ca. 29,000 words
original text in Italian (Galaad Edizioni)
world rights except for Italy
book trailer :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK05tIZl20Y=
Davide Sapienza, translator and writer, contributes to several magazines in Italy and abroad. He is an expert of the culture and traditions of native Americans, and as a passionate traveller has a penchant for the Arctic lands and the American Great North. In 2006 he travelled in the Yukon and Klondike on the path of Jack London, of whom he collected rare and unpublished writings and translated several short stories and some of the most important novels. He lives in an Alpine village with his wife - the rock star Cristina Donà - and their baby son.