Germany as Described by Great Writers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Singleton, Esther

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ISBN 10: 1330663721 ISBN 13: 9781330663721

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Among the most important of the canals are the Lud wig's canal in Bavaria, uniting the Danube with the Main the system connecting the Memel with the Pregel; that joining the Oder with the Elbe; the Plauen canal, con necting the Elbe with the Havel; the Eider canal, con necting the Eider with Kiel; the rhine-rhone, and the rhine-marne, in alsace-lorraine; the Baltic Sea, or Kaiser Wilhelm's canal, begun in 1887 and opened for traffic June 19, 189 5; and several other canals in process of con struction. There are numerous lakes in Germany, but few of them are of large size. In the low northern districts there are extensive swamps and marsh-lands. Numerous springs occur chicfly in Nassau, Wiirtemburg, Baden, Bavaria, and Rhenish Prussia.

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This book is planned on the same lines as my former ones in this series - Holland, Japan and Russia - and with the same aim in view, - that of giving the tourist and general reader a comprehensive glimpse of an important country.

The task of selection has not been an easy one, for Germany is so rich in picturesque cities, fine architecture, well stocked museums and art-galleries, beautiful scenery, and legendary rivers, lakes, forests and mountains, that it is difficult to omit places that command admiration.

The limitations of a small book, however, admit only of a bird's-eye view of so large and great a country as Germany; and in my selections I have had to keep to general and avoid special descriptions, as a rule. A brief glance at the topography of the country and a historical review of its people is, therefore, followed by descriptions of the four kingdoms and their capitals. A few other cities are added, together with Heligoland, the Rhine, and the famous Harz, Black and Thuringian forests. The next groups of essays deal with social life; and brief surveys of painting, music, politics, and the development of modern industrial Germany close what might be termed a rapid run through this most interesting country.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330663721
• ISBN 13: 9781330663721
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 452
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar