| Heligoland, Past and Present Contributor(s): Ritsema, Alex (Author) |
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ISBN: 1847531903 ISBN-13: 9781847531902 Publisher: Lulu.com OUR PRICE: $8.38 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel - History | Europe - Germany |
| Dewey: 943 |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 6" W x 9" (0.39 lbs) 114 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Heligoland (spelled "Helgoland" in German) consists of two small German islands in the southeast of the North Sea, some 50 kilometres from the German mainland. The main - and the only inhabited - island has a length of less than two kilometres but it is one of the top-tourist destinations of northwest Germany. This book contains the first comprehensive history of Heligoland in the English language, including: its unique geology (with its cliffs and fossils); its seals, birds and plants; its legends of saints and pirates; its wreckers, fishermen, hunters and pilots; its turbulent military history, from the Middle Ages to the Nazis; accounts of eyewitnesses from various centuries; many line drawings, some historic ones and some made by the Dutch artist Anneke de Vries. |