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E-book Water : A Dutch Cultural History

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“Whose heart does not wince in dismay to read about how a son,who had seen his father, his mother and his six brothers and sis-ters drown, spent nineteen hours lying on his stomach on a smallpile of hay, his hands and feet dangling in the water, and drivenabout by turbulent waves, while a married couple, after havinglost a mother and a sister, were subjected to forty-eight similarhours on the same sort of raft?”1That was the question ponderedby Johannes ter Pelkwijk, a teacher from Zwolle, in his report onthe flood of 1825. The newspapers were full of such misery. Par-ticularly hard hit was the province of Overijssel: “Further reportsfrom Overijssel regarding the flood are extremely tragic. Largenumbers of people are still being brought to Zwolle after havingbeen rescued by boat from their makeshift dwellings. Twenty-five bodies have already been recovered and taken to that city.”2On the 4th and 5th of February a severe storm raged acrossthe Netherlands, with disastrous results: entire areas around theZuiderzee were flooded. The national death toll was 380, and16,700 cattle were drowned.3Overijssel was the most severelyimpacted, with at least 305 dead.4In his Description of the Over -ijssel Flood of February 1825, Ter Pelkwijk described the dramaticscenes that had taken place town by town. One scene was moreheart-wrenching than the next: many people saw their lovedones drown before their very eyes. In a ditch near Zwartsluis, fivebodies from the same family were found. The mother had beenin labor; the head of the infant was already crowning.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

363.34936 JEN w

Penerbit

Netherlands : Radboud University Press., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

295 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789493296312

Klasifikasi

363.34936

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Flood Disaster Services

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