Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers on the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers on the Rhine from Switzerland to Holland etc written by Carl BAEDEKER and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhine written by Mark Cioc and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baedeker s Switzerland written by Karl Baedeker and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance Handbook for Travellers written by Karl Baedeker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book Handbook for Travellers on The Rhine from Holland to Switzerland written by K. Baedeker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.
Download or read book Belgium and Holland written by Karl Baedeker and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhine written by Ben Coates and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Blending travelogue and offbeat history, The Rhine tells the fascinating story of how a great river helped shape a continent.
Download or read book Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire Excluding Paris and Its Environs written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by Leipzig : Karl Baedeker. This book was released on 1909 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northern France from Belgium and the English channel written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northern Germany Handbook for Travellers written by Karl Baedeker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book Southern Germany Wurtemberg and Bavaria written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northern Germany written by Karl Baedeker and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhine written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy Savoy and Tyrol written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by Leipzig, K. Baedeker; New York, C. Scribner's sons. This book was released on 1913 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northern Germany written by Karel Beadeker (firm) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
