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Book SynopsisA joy to read Times Literary Supplement
[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine Irish Times
It''s easy to be swept away by Deen''s delightful prose New Statesman
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 we
