The Boundless River Stories from the Realm of the Rhine

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781529424164
  • 04 juli 2024
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A beautifully imaginative work of non-fiction about the Rhine, from its birth to the present day, told through stories of those who lived along its shores.



"A beautiful book, by turns poetic, witty and full of learning . . . This unique biography of a river marks a new kind of writing about people and place, both in and out of time" PATRICK McGUINNESS

The Boundless River takes the reader into a unique world ‒ the twilight zone between fact and fiction, science and imagination ‒ and on a journey which moves effortlessly from a time in prehistory, long before the existence of a European continent, to the present day. Along the way Deen encounters paleontologists, geologists, museum curators, taxidermists, fishermen and skippers who work the boats, who still see the Rhine as a living entity.

From the mighty hippos that swam in its waters millions of years ago, to the weary salmon that saw their habitat slowly change and the aurochs that grazed its shores; from the primordial Steinheim Woman to the Roman general Corbulo who commanded settlements along its delta, to a young Goethe: in all of their stories the Rhine is ever present, sometimes as the main character, sometimes as an extra, as a theatre of war, a border between nations, a bathing spot, a killer, a vital transport route.

Beautifully fluid, rich and captivating, The Boundless River shows how the Rhine connects and divides, terrifies, comforts, carries and swallows, and has done since the beginning of time.

Translated from the Dutch by Jane Hedley-Prôle and Jonathan Reeder

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Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
04 juli 2024

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Hoofdauteur
Mathijs Deen
Hoofduitgeverij
Maclehose Press

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Eerste Vertaler
Jane Hedley-Prole
Tweede Vertaler
Jonathan Reeder

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138 mm
Product lengte
222 mm
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138 mm
Verpakking lengte
222 mm

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