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A 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

The Boundless River

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      Publisher Quercus Publishing
      Published 7 April 2024
      ISBN-13 9781529424188
      978-1529424188
      ISBN-10 1529424186

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A 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

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