{"product_id":"9781529424164","title":"The Boundless River : Stories from the Realm of the Rhine","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Deen, Mathijs \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eNetherlands\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 July 2024 by Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 320 pages, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e146 x 224 x 31 | 424g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 McGUINNESSThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Dutch by Jane Hedley-Prôle and Jonathan Reeder\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46128430383363,"sku":"9781529424164","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781529424164.jpg?v=1731413936","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781529424164","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}