{"product_id":"the-boundless-river-stories-from-the-realm-of-the-rhine","title":"The Boundless River: Stories From The Realm Of The Rhine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A joy to read\" Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine\" Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"It''s easy to be swept away by Deen''s delightful prose\" New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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 McGUINNESS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Dutch by Jane Hedley-Prôle and Jonathan Reeder\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45231267152051,"sku":"9781529424188","price":1080.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/81UCaRpu6xL.jpg?v=1768993267","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-boundless-river-stories-from-the-realm-of-the-rhine","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}