Mathijs Deen
Author of Over oude wegen een reis door de geschiedenis van Europa
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Works by Mathijs Deen
De redder 4 copies
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Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Gelderland leest — Contributor — 8 copies
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Groningen leest — Contributor — 4 copies
Nederland leest de mooiste korte verhalen — Contributor — 3 copies
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Fryslân leest — Contributor — 3 copies
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Limburg leest — Contributor — 2 copies
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Flevoland leest — Contributor — 2 copies
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Zeeland leest — Contributor — 2 copies
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Overijssel leest — Contributor — 1 copy
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Drenthe leest — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Deen, Mathijs
- Other names
- Deen, Matthijs
- Birthdate
- 1962
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Birthplace
- Hengelo, Netherlands
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- Works
- 12
- Also by
- 15
- Members
- 297
- Popularity
- #78,942
- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
- 10
- ISBNs
- 34
- Languages
- 3
Been puts together a collage of interesting vignettes to give us an impression of what this means in physical, cultural, economic, political and spiritual terms — timelapse accounts of the geological formation of the area; journalistic impressions of its scope (the village at the easternmost point of the catchment area, Bischofsgrün, is famous for building a giant snowman each year to celebrate Carnival; at the westernmost point is Ors, where Wilfred Owen was killed a few days before the Armistice in 1918); imaginative reconstructions of incidents in Roman and Carolingian times; the river as a frontier and as a transport artery; the culture of river-bathing and the use of drowning as a means of execution; an eccentric Swiss family that lived on an isolated peninsula in the Upper Rhine Gorge; St Willibrord converting the Frisians; a couple of Swiss entrepreneurs who brought an Irish light-vessel to Basel to make into a concert venue; the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo building a canal between the northern and southern mouths of the river. And so on. It sounds like a terrible mish-mash, but it actually works very well: Deen is a lively and versatile writer and he manages to create a unity between the very diverse subjects and moods of these stories.… (more)