The Rhine by Mackinder, Halford John; illustrated in colour after Mrs. James Jardine; two maps - 1908

Dodd, Mead and Company NY, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket. "Having gathered waters from its tributaries, as it were the roots and rootlets penetrating the ground and drawing sap into the trunk, it parts into distributaries which traverse the delta, like tree branches which carry the moisture back into the air. The delta of the Rhine begins to-day just within the border of Holland, although two hundred years ago the division took place in Germany. From the time when Virgil described the Rhine as 'two-horned', the prime division has undoubtedly been into two main distributaries, but apart from this fact everything has changed during the intervening centuries." [Exerpt from book] Owner address label; decorative cover; general wear to extremities, top and bottom of spine and corners.