Did you know that more than half of the people in the Netherlands live on land that used to be under water?

Angelo Cohn, who has spent a great deal of time in the Netherlands, tells the story of the crowded, hard-working but gay country that is fast taking its place among the most "modern" states today. He describes the industries, the farms, and the great, never-ending engineering project of reclaiming land from the sea. Here are the people, too, artists, writers, plain people and royalty, families at work and play, all vividly brought to life.

This is a book young people will enjoy, for Mr. Cohn has the great faculty of understanding what young people want to know about people they have never met.

From the book