Item #179107 The Rhine: Culture and Landscape at the Heart of Europe. Roland Recht.
The Rhine: Culture and Landscape at the Heart of Europe
The Rhine: Culture and Landscape at the Heart of Europe

The Rhine: Culture and Landscape at the Heart of Europe

New York, N.Y. Thames & Hudson, 2001. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket with white lettering, color illustrated end pages, color frontispiece, 434 illustrations, 356 in color. VG/VG (inscribed as a gift to previous owner on title page. Corners lightly bumped, light shelfwear. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.). Item #179107
ISBN: 9780500510582

Contents include: The River -- Forces of Nature and Works of People: Origins and Development of the Rhine Landscape -- River of History: Towns, Countries, Borders -- European Waterway: Roads, Bridges and Shipping -- Tourism on the Rhine: Pilgrims, Artists and Travellers -- River of the Soul: Mystics, Humanists and Romantics -- Art in the Rhineland -- History of Art, Geography of Art -- The Early Middle Ages and Romanesque Art -- Gothic Art and the End of the Middle Ages -- From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution -- Rhine Journey: Art, Landscapes and Monuments along the Rhine -- The Alpine Rhine: From the Source Rivers of the Vorderrhein and Hinterrhein to Lake Constance -- Disentis -- Zillis -- Via Mala -- Thusis -- Rhazuns -- Domat/Ems -- Chur -- Bad Ragaz -- Vaduz in Liechtenstein -- Lake Constance Rhine: Konstanz and Reichenau Island -- Kreuzlingen -- Konstanz -- Reichenau Island -- Schloss Arenenberg -- The High Rhine: From Stein am Rhein to the Gates of Basel -- Stein am Rhein -- Schaffhausen -- Rheinau -- Zurzach -- Augusta Raurica -- The Upper Rhine: From Basel to Mainz -- Basel -- Ottmarsheim -- Thann -- Murbach -- Freiburg -- Breisach -- Colmar -- Selestat -- Strasbourg -- Baden-Baden -- Rastatt -- Karlsruhe -- Bruchsal -- Heidelberg -- Mannheim -- Schwetzingen -- Speyer -- Limburg an der Haardt -- Worms -- Lorsch -- Oppenheim -- Mainz -- The Middle Rhine: The 'romantic Rhine' between Mainz and Cologne -- Eberbach monastery church -- Bingen -- Lorch -- Bacharach -- Kaub -- Boppard -- Koblenz -- Maria Laach -- Andernach -- Schwarzrheindorf -- Siegburg -- Bonn -- Bruhl -- Cologne -- The Lower Rhine and the Delta -- Brauweiler -- Dusseldorf -- Neuss -- Xanten -- Kalkar -- Nijmegen -- Utrecht -- Rotterdam -- Delft -- Ground Plans -- Geographical and General Index.

OCLC: 47677110

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