The Great River
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Great River: The Story of a Voyage on the Yangtze Kiang In the winter time the Yangtze is a comparatively narrow stream between high banks. In the summer it is miles wide, in places overflowing until it is often impossible to see the limit of its reaching. It is the strangest, most inexplicable river in the world. A river captain who discovers a sand-bar on the up-trip and decides that it is Sunday Island shifting about a bit, returns to find it on the opposite side of the river and all his calculations gone for nought. The same captain anchors his boat in the stream bow-wards against a four-knot current and finds his anchor chains slack because a back-wash holds her static. Thousands of villages are inundated and washed away during flood-time and yet the richness of the Valley makes all losses worth while and the inhabitants come pouring back again as rapidly as the river drops. The height of the river´s mystery is found in the Gorges. One of the greatest naval engineers in the world sat in a junk and watched the current coming down at four knots and the backwash along the bank flowing upwards at the rate of two knots per hour. He shook his head and, "There´s nae such river," he said. Other captains after taking ships through the Gorges a few times and watching huge Szechuan junks turning round and round helplessly in the giant whirlpools and again and again seeing their own ships barely miss the rocks of destruction, have decided to seek less strenuous channels of navigation! There is impressiveness and romance about this wonderful river. The source of it lies in areas marked "uncharted" on the map. A new theory of a late explorer has it that the source is far distant from the spot where it was originally supposed to be and that, perhaps, the Yangtze might finally be found to be the longest river in the world. The great Chengtu plain in Szechuan holds unfathomable and practically untouched wealth. About the Publisher 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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