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Scope and limitations of this book I am trying here to present the natural history of a land largely created and dominated by two great rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris. All rivers have two main functions, quite different from lakes; they transport water and eroded material sometimes over large distances. The astute Greeks, who penetrated here in the 4th century B.C., called the land Mesopotamia, an apt name; it is the only region in the Near East, except Egypt, having the benefit of large rivers. Another name coined in antiquity was 'Fertile Crescent', stretching from Egypt to present day Iraq; Herodotus marvelled at the fertility of the soils, the abundance of water and the magnificent cities of Mesopotamia. Thus a further role of some great rivers is recognized as foci of human development. The desire to collate this book arose from a similar motif as in the Nile book (1976), the intricate connection between man and rivers.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: Euphrates and Tigris, Mesopotamian Ecology and Destiny
• Author: J. Rzóska
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132
• EAN: 9789400991736
• ISBN: 9400991738
• ID: 02184149
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 236 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 156 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. October 2011

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