Hydrography and Navigation on the Congo River A Century of Visual History /
In a time without GPS and echosounder, European engineers and black labourers worked for decades to get a better understanding of the nautical intricacies of the Congo River. This is the first comprehensive story, in text and custom-made maps, of the, in flow, second largest river in the world. We f...
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| 格式: | 電子 電子書 |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2023.
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| 版: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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| 在線閱讀: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41065-9 |
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書本目錄:
- Part I. General hydrographic description of the Haut-Congo Basin
- Chapter 1. Introduction to the general geography of the DRC
- Chapter 2. Early shipping on the Haut-Congo
- Chapter 3. From the source to Kisangani: The Upper-Congo
- Chapter 4. From Kisangani to Mbandaka: The High Middle-Congo and Ubangi
- Chapter 5. The Low Middle-Congo: From Mbandaka to Tsumbiri
- Chapter 6. The last stretch to Kinshasa: The Congo Couloir
- Chapter 7. The Upper-Kasai watershed
- Chapter 8. The Sankuru, Fimi-Lukenie and Lower-Kasai tributaries
- Chapter 9. The Kwango and Kwilu River watersheds
- Chapter 10. The Congo Cataracts
- Part II. Early European mapping of the Maritime Congo River
- Chapter 11. The first Europeans venture up the Congo Estuary
- Chapter 12. The Kouilou-Niari, an alternative access?
- Chapter 13. The voyage from Europe to Congo
- Part III. The Hydrography of the Maritime Congo River
- Chapter 14. Introduction to the Bas-Congo
- Chapter 15. Early maps of the maritime river
- Chapter 16. The acute need for bathymetric surveys
- Chapter 17. Hydrographic basics in the tropics
- Chapter 18. A new navigation channel in the making
- Chapter 19. The Mateba Deceiving Bend (Barrage du Faux Bras de Mateba)
- Chapter 20. Difficult years
- Chapter 21. Independence in 1960
- Chapter 22. Based on detailed land surveys
- Chapter 23. Epilogue: A concept for the future?