ARGONAUT BOOKS

Mathijs Deen takes the reader into his unique world: the twilight zone between fact and fiction, science and imagination. 'If the river is a character, then it must have a birth and a death. Tell me how it came about'. Mathijs Deen asks his table companion, a geologist, on a sunny September day. The answer that follows is the beginning of a journey that takes the reader from a time long before we spoke of a European continent to the present day, when skippers still see the Rhine as a living being. From the mighty hippos that grazed the banks millions of years ago to the weary salmon that saw i...Read More