Close the Sluices! So you think we've told you everything about the Low Countries and Water?
(Filip Matthijs) The Low Countries - 2003, № 11, pp. 107-114
‘Think again!' is the answer to the question in the subtitle of this article. There's plenty more to tell about water: Dutch naval heroes, Prince Willem-Alexander as a true waterlander, Manneke Pis and Hans Brinker, Delta and Sigma Plans, the Holland Water Lines, the Ostend Company, Dutch whalers on Jan Mayen Island and Spitsbergen, and a bottle-shaped hydrofoil manned by a Fleming.
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