The Rhine

Author : Ben Coates
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781473683037

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The Rhine by Ben Coates Pdf

From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers, raucous Gay Pride parades, tranquil Lake Constance and snowy mountain climbs, The Rhine blends travelogue and offbeat history to tell the fascinating story of how a great river helped shape a continent. SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The Rhine is one of the world's greatest rivers. Once forming the outer frontier of the Roman Empire, it flows 800 miles from the social democratic playground of the Netherlands, through the industrial and political powerhouses of Germany and France, to the wealthy mountain fortresses of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. For five years, Ben Coates lived alongside a major channel of the river in Rotterdam, crossing it daily, swimming and sailing in its tributaries. In The Rhine, he sets out by bicycle from the Netherlands where it enters the North Sea, following it through Germany, France and Liechtenstein, to where its source in the icy Alps. He explores the impact that the Rhine has had on European culture and history and finds out how influences have flowed along and across the river, shaping the people who live alongside it.

Author : Douglas Niles,Michael Dobson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812574664

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Fox on the Rhine by Douglas Niles,Michael Dobson Pdf

A thrilling tale of a war that might have been. Their Fhrer is dead, but a cadre of SS officers back Himmler to seize control of the Third Reich and attempt to change the course of the war. They first form an armistice with Russia, then appoint the legendary "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel to lead the European theater into a confrontation with General George Patton that will determine the fate of Europe--and perhaps the free world. (June)

Author : Mark Cioc
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780295989785

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The Rhine by Mark Cioc Pdf

The Rhine River is Europe’s most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In this innovative study, Mark Cioc focuses on the river from the moment when the Congress of Vienna established a multinational commission charged with making the river more efficient for purposes of trade and commerce in 1815. He examines the engineering and administrative decisions of the next century and a half that resulted in rapid industrial growth as well as profound environmental degradation, and highlights the partially successful restoration efforts undertaken from the 1970s to the present. The Rhine is a classic example of a “multipurpose” river -- used simultaneously for transportation, for industry and agriculture, for urban drinking and sanitation needs, for hydroelectric production, and for recreation. It thus invites comparison with similarly over-burdened rivers such as the Mississippi, Hudson, Colorado, and Columbia. The Rhine’s environmental problems are, however, even greater than those of other rivers because it is so densely populated (50 million people live along its borders), so highly industrialized (10% of global chemical production), and so short (775 miles in length). Two centuries of nonstop hydraulic tinkering have resulted in a Rhine with a sleek and slender profile. In their quest for a perfect canal-like river, engineers have modified it more than any other large river in the world. As a consequence, between 1815 and 1975, the river lost most of its natural floodplain, riverside vegetation, migratory fish, and biodiversity. Recent efforts to restore that biodiversity, though heartening, can have only limited success because so many of the structural changes to the river are irreversible. The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 makes clear just how central the river has been to all aspects of European political, economic, and environmental life for the past two hundred years.

Author : John Ringo,Tom Kratman
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743499187

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Watch on the Rhine by John Ringo,Tom Kratman Pdf

In the dark days after the events in the book Gust Front, but before the primary invasion, the Chancellor of Germany faces a critical decision.

Author : Franklin M. Davis,Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0783557205

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Across the Rhine by Franklin M. Davis,Time-Life Books Pdf

A pictorial account of the last days of the Allied campaign across Germany.

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Rhine River Valley
ISBN : CHI:25931520

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The Rhine by Victor Hugo Pdf

Author : P.H. Nienhuis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402082139

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Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta by P.H. Nienhuis Pdf

This unique text presents the environmental history of the lowland delta of the rivers Rhine and Meuse. It is an ecological story of evolving human-environmental relations and how they cope with climate change and sea-level rise. The text offers a combination of in-depth ecology and environmental history. The synthesis presents a blueprint for future management and restoration, from progressive reclamation of land in the past, to adaptation of human needs to the forces of nature.

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849083881

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Defense of the Rhine 1944–45 by Steven J. Zaloga Pdf

The Rhine River represented the last natural defensive barrier for the Third Reich in the autumn of 1944. Although Hitler had been reluctant to allow the construction of tactical defence lines in France, the final defense of the Reich was another matter. As a result, construction of a Rhine defence line began in September 1944. Steven J. Zaloga examines the multiple phases of construction undertaken to strengthen the Westwall (Siegfried Line), to fortify many of the border villages, and finally to prepare for the demolition of the Rhine bridges. Using detailed maps, colour artwork, and expert analysis, this book takes a detailed look at Germany's last line of defence.

Author : Michael D. Morgan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781614231981

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Over-the-Rhine by Michael D. Morgan Pdf

Over-the-Rhine is a place where a building owner can stumble upon huge caverns underneath a basement floor or find long-forgotten tunnels that travel far below city streets. Its present mysteries are attributable to a past that transcends the common story of how cities change over time: it is the story of how a clash between immigrants and "real Americans" helped rob Cincinnati of its image, its soul and its economy. In the 1870s, OTR was comparable to the cultural hearts of Paris and Vienna. By the turn of the last century, the neighborhood was home to roughly three hundred saloons and had over a dozen breweries within or adjacent to its borders. It was beloved by countless citizens and travelers for the exact reasons that others successfully sought to destroy it. This is the story of how the heart of the "Paris of America" became a time capsule.

Author : Karl Baedeker
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783846049020

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The Rhine and Northern Germany by Karl Baedeker Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

Author : Elena A. Skrjabina
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412845270

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The Allies on the Rhine by Elena A. Skrjabina Pdf

Elena Skrjabina's diary presents a vivid, personal account of the Allied invasion and occupation of the Rhineland, describing life under America's liberating army

Author : Lloyd Clark
Publisher : Headline
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755365593

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Arnhem: Jumping the Rhine 1944 & 1945 by Lloyd Clark Pdf

An insightful and gripping account of the largest airborne operation in history. In September 1944, the river Rhine was a serious barrier to the advancing Allied armies in the West who were intent on charging Berlin and ending the war. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery decided to utilise the First Allied Airborne Army consisting of British, American and Polish troops. Codenamed Operation Market Garden, 40,000 paratroopers were dropped behind enemy lines while ground forces linked to relieve them. But, due to bad weather and German resistance, the operation failed. In March 1945, asecond attempt was planned: Operation Varsity Plunder. This time the plan worked. Despite extremely heavy fighting, they cracked the German line.

Author : George Bradshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555000711

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Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia by George Bradshaw Pdf

Author : Frederick Knight Hunt (Editor of the Daily News.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900388786

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The Rhine; Its Scenery and Historical and Legendary Associations by Frederick Knight Hunt (Editor of the Daily News.) Pdf

Author : Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Rhine River
ISBN : HARVARD:HNNYCB

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The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance by Karl Baedeker (Firm) Pdf