It was a fitting specter for a man who has cranked out an eclectic mix of in-depth documentaries the way most people whip up breakfast foods: the wide breadth of the river on one side, staffers burrowing into the nitty-gritty on the other.
His job, in the stern, was to steer us back and forth across the river's breadth toward unobstructed channels.
It's a fortified manor house, rather than a castle proper, but with a gatehouse that looks like a keep, with battlements and a broad moat - a proper moat, with a river's breadth". At first, he thought his childhood would not be an appealing subject for readers: "Just too posh," he says.
A stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in the 7th, a river's breadth from the discreet charm of Passy in the 16th, on the verge of Montparnasse in the 14th -- the map told me exactly what the 15th was not.
It is a region tied economically and socially to the mountain spines that span its length and breadth and to the rivers that enclose it on many sides.
We ran Behind the backs of houses, crossed a street Of blinding windscreens, smelt the fish-dock; thence The river's level drifting breadth began, Where sky and Lincolnshire and water meet.
Six decades ago, he travelled from Hull to London, a journey memorialised at the start of his great poem The Whitsun Weddings: "We ran / Behind the backs of houses, crossed a street / Of blinding windscreens, smelt the fish-dock; thence / The river's level drifting breadth began, / Where sky and Lincolnshire and water meet".
This Special Publication illustrates the breadth of current research on meandering rivers and their deposits.
These three latter lie approximately parallel to the river and Tyrrhenia in their breadth and also to one another in their length; 219and they reach up to those parts of the Apennine Mountains which closely approach the Adriatic, in this order: first, Ombrica, then, after Ombrica, the country of the Sabini, and, last, Latium, — all of them beginning at the river.
The two projects differ in scale and expense as much as the two rivers differ in depth and breadth, and each presents unique engineering challenges.
