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NĂLUCI PE APE - PLUTAŞII Shadows On The Water - The Raftsmen Hundred of years have passed since the towering timbers of the Bucovina forests began their journey by water towards the Danube and the Black Sea... Tied in long strings of rafts steered by brave men, locked in battle with the foamy waves and rocky pinnacles that rose in their path, the logs eventually arrived in the East, where craftsmen transformed them into houses, boats and violins. Paul Braşcanu's documentary book is devoted to precisely this activity that has since disappeared from the landscapes of Bucovina: it is a beautiful and interesting monographic description of rafting in Bucovina and the Bistrița river basin. Through his calm, concise, and well-researched style of writing, the author helps us to understand that rafting and the transport of timber by water, especially on fast-flowing mountain streams, was carried out only by skilled and daring people - the raftsmen. The rafting profession, whose historical roots remain unclear, was both difficult and dangerous - such that it was handed down from father to son like an ancient ritual. The raftsmen were mountain people with a multitude of forestry skills, along with new ones acquired from working with the wet timber of the rafts and the rocks of the river. It is to them that the author dedicates this book. At the end of a long journey of activity by other skilled and hard-working people, the timber arrived alongside the tributaries of larger rivers, where rafts were built using techniques known to only a few. We are taken along the streams and larger rivers of Bucovina: the Ceremuş, the Prut, the Dorna, Coşna, Teșna and Bistrița; past weirs and dams ("haituri" - as they are called by the specialists); through many logging areas, camps and sawmills, from Dorna to Galați. Both the cutting of timber and its transport by raft were strictly organised, at least in Bucovina, through a series of regulations and laws. In the chapters that discuss rafting and logging the author makes use of many images, photographs, tables, statistics, maps, and sketches - of water courses, forests, dams, weirs, locations, industrial buildings and housing; as well as other sources of specific scientific information. A comprehensive bibliography of Romanian and foreign researchers, plus yearbooks, journals, archival documents, publications and other sources of information, testimonies of former raftsmen, and a welcome "glossary" of terms related to forestry and rafting, ensure the scientific and documentary nature of the book. For all those who have loved rafting - from within or from the outside - nothing is left today but nostalgia, as is perfectly illustrated by the author when he writes: Slowly, slowly they have departed through the shadows - the raftsmen. In the villages a cloak has been thrown over their memory like a shroud of mist over a damp meadow. No longer are their voices heard echoing in the valleys, giving short, gasped commands. The rafts no longer float down the Bistrița as the first tears of the sun filter through the fir branches and leaves of alder. Only the river sings his loneliness, whispering in the shade of the forest, through the roots, rocks and swirling waters. The raftsmen are long gone, yet their footprints - dug into the powderless road - are today .... Shadows on the water ... Abstract by COLIN SHAW / Braşov Roving Romania: www.roving-romania.co.uk