They are lifelines and carriers of secrets, borders and trade routes, reservoirs and places of power. They bring fertility and destruction, awaken both nameless discomfort and debilitating longing. Our fascination with rivers and their stories remains unbroken.
Stefan Schomann has spent years traveling on and along rivers, from mighty currents like the Amazon to tranquil ones like the Hase in Emsland, Northern Germany. He dives into the source of the Sorgue, rafts in the Himalayas, explores the karst caves dug by the Reka, accompanies a sea rescuer in South Africa’s Pondoland and a bird whisperer on China’s Nujiang. He dedicates himself to some of the last primeval landscapes on earth, wanders through mythological realms, and devotes himself to the rivers of paradise as well as those of the underworld.
His stories meander and flow. He tries to plumb the essence of water and probes the world for examples of a contemporary approach to nature. Brimming with curiosity, he lingers with the people who live on the rivers’ shores.
