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An illustration by Maia Kobabe showing a flintlock pistol. From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.

An illustration by Maia Kobabe showing an aqueduct. From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.

Roman bridge over the Rubicon river located in Savignano sul Rubicone. The Rubicon has been one of the world’s most famous rivers ever since Julius Caesar crossed it in 49 BCE. However the bridge does not date from Caesar's times. It was...

The course of the River Ganges. Beginning in the Himalaya it runs for 2,700 km to the Bay of Bengal.

An illustration by Maia Kobabe showing the Colossus of Rhodes. The Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic 33-metre-high bronze statue of the sun god Helios which stood by the harbour of that city from c. 280 BCE. From the novel The Jericho River...

A nesting least tern pair in the sandbar habitat on the Missouri River below Gavins Point Dam. Yankton, South Dakota, USA. Photograph and caption by Robert Etzel. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library.

An illustration by Maia Kobabe showing an ancient Roman noblewoman. From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.

North Bank of the River Dee in Chester.

An illustration by Maia Kobabe showing a late victorian European colonialist. From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.

The modern bridge of Lodi that crosses the Adda River. Though this bridge was built in 1864, it gives a sense of what the original bridge may have looked like, which the French Army of Italy had to cross during the Battle of Lodi on 10 May...