Molens
£18.00
Een eerste kennismaking met een boeiend fenomeen
English title: a first introduction to a fascinating phenomenon
Hard cover with dust jacket, 110pp., profusely illustrated with colour photographs, drawings and diagrams.
Dutch, English, French and German languages.
An introductory chapter, ‘Nearly a thousand…’, describes the number and variety of mills all over the Netherlands.
Horse-driven mills. Water-wheel mills‘Standard’ (wind-) mills Beam windmills. Tjaskers (Frisian-type screw-driven mills). Spinnekoppen (‘Spider-mills’). Polder mills. Paltrok (pawl-driven mills). Tower-mills Beltmolens (elevated mills). More about polder mills Stellingmolens (base-mounted mills).
‘Build your own garden mill’
‘Looking at mills’ is a field guide to the surviving mills of the Netherlands, their locations and histories.
‘Something about mill names and explains the origins of the names of some Dutch mills.
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