Snaking almost 1,800 miles from its source in Germany’s Black Forest to the Black Sea in Romania, the Danube is best explored slowly. Cruises, the most popular option, provide up-close encounters with ...

The novel ends north of Archangel, where an explorer had found Victor, on the verge of death chasing the remorseful creature, who in the finale sets off to "the northern extremity of the globe" to ...