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101 Facts about the Netherlands

Name: 101 Facts about the Netherlands
Brand: Independently published
SKU: 54400268
Price: 91.49 RON
Availability: InStock
Author: Tino Seeber
ISBN: 9798167363960

History - Culture - Nature - Curiosities

Tino Seeber

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Codul Libristo: 54400268

Editura Independently published, noiembrie 2026

A country everybody is sure they already know.Flat, wet, bicycles, cheese – and then the most famous... Descrierea completă

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A country everybody is sure they already know.

Flat, wet, bicycles, cheese – and then the most famous number turns out to be wrong. It is not 55 percent of the Netherlands that lies below sea level but 26. Since October 2010 the highest point in the country has been a 2,910-foot volcano in the Caribbean. The tulip comes from Central Asia. And Europe’s most famous cycling nation only became one in the 1970s.

101 facts. Each on a page of its own.
No entry takes longer than a coffee. Sorted into six chapters:

Geography & Nature – the Wadden Sea, the return of the wolf, a heat record
History & Archaeology – megalithic tombs, the world’s first share, Japan through a peephole
People, Language & Cities – Frisian, pillarization, the largest bike garage on earth
Water, Dikes & Reclaimed Land – the 1953 flood, the Delta Works, an engine made of sand
Food & Drink – herring, Gouda, genever, licorice with sal ammoniac
Economy, Records & Everyday Life – the port, the flower auction, chip machines

The uncomfortable parts are here too.
Twelve entries deal with the trade in enslaved people, the highest deportation rate in Western Europe, the Hunger Winter, Indonesia, and Srebrenica – not in a chapter of their own but among the others.

Checked, not copied.
Every figure, every superlative, and every date was checked against accessible sources. One example: the tulip mania of 1637 ruined neither the Dutch economy nor any notable number of people – in most cases no money had ever changed hands.

With a country profile, a timeline, a glossary, and an index for looking things up.

Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.