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The Boundless River : Stories from the Realm of the Rhine, Hardback Book

The Boundless River : Stories from the Realm of the Rhine Hardback

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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 grazed its banks 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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