一条被控制的河流
作者： WILFRIED TEN BRINKE著;江恩惠[等]译
出版社：黄河水利出版社,2009
简介： WILFRIED TEN BRINKE When thinking about the Netherlands, the
Dutch poet Marsman visuallsed wide rivers meandering through
endless lowlands. When the floodplains are flooded in the wet
season, and the rivers form a mass of water from dike to dike, the
countryside does indeed appear to he filled with wide rivers. For
most of the year, however, the floodplains are dry, and Dutch
rivers are narrow in comparison with the world's giant alluvial
channels. Since the Middle Ages, the Dutch have tamed their
rivers. Dikes have been built, meanders have been cut off and the
rivers have partly been canalised. The Rhine in the Netherlands is
not a single watercourse but rather a system of Rhine branches
fanning out over the country, wilfried ten Brinke, working at the
Dutch Directorate-General fur Public Works and Water Management,
travels along these branches on the basis of 15o aerial
photographs, thus presenting a fabulous view on the river's
landscape. Complicated processes are explained in an easily
accessible way. This book shows how water works its way through
the landscape. It is pre-eminently suitable for everyone who lives
or works near the riven
