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Article: Black Sea.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1995
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Neal Ascherson. Jonathan Cape. 306pp. 17.99[pounds]. 0-224-04102-9.
The author, a sometimes notorious journalist, has made an outstanding and successful effort to acquaint us with the facts and the images of a forgotten water, forgotten although Britain fought a famous victory on its shores, the Crimean War. The author starts and finishes up with the facts and the environmental problems of that mysterious water. Only the top 200 metres of its water are alive, permitting fish, dolphins and other creatures despite its five contributary rivers -- the Danube is one -- pouring some 203 cubic kilometres of water into it annually. Below the 200 metres the lower 500 metres ...