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《荷蘭境內的萊茵河:一條被控制的河流》為黃河水利出版社出版發行。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
