The Low Countries. Jaargang 14(2006)– [tijdschrift] The Low Countries– Auteursrechtelijk beschermd Inhoudsopgave With warm regards from foreign parts Luc Devoldere | Chief Editor Explore your Prison From Ypres to Verdun Not the memory, but the spectacle... An Extract from Geert Mak's In Europe Arrival & Departure Travelling to and from the Low Countries [Raf de Bruyn] The Adventurous Endeavours of Joost Conijn Potentialities of Autonomous Travel through Life [Jellichje Reijnders] Barefoot and on horseback to the Mongols, whom we call Tartars The Mission of a Flemish monk [Luc Devoldere] From Turpan to Kashgar The bus is not suitable for foreigners An Extract from Adriaan van Dis' A Barbarian in China Portrait of the Traveller with Burin and Printing Press The Representation of Dutch Maritime Expansion in the De Bry Collection of Voyages [Michiel van Groesen] From Africa to Africa The Return of a Dead Traveller An Extract from Frank Westerman's El Negro and Me Out and About with Bruegel [Manfred Sellink] Christoph Fink's Travel Accounts Aesthetics of the Contemporary Worldview [Filip Luyckx] Notices to Travellers [Selected by Anton Korteweg] A Road Less Travelled The Road to Antwerp Beach - A Journey along the N1 [Derek Blyth] Even at Home I am not a Tourist [Filip Matthijs] The Dutch Raise their Voices [Gerard van Westerloo] Perfectly Happy in Vinex-Land [Marieke van Rooy] Blood or Soil A Stroll through Belgian Absurdistan [Carl Devos] The End of a War National and Private Monuments Commemorating the Great War in Flanders [Piet Chielens] Self-Willed or Superfluous? Art in Public Space in the Netherlands [Ingeborg Walinga] Borremans' Circus [Patrick T. Murphy] Hit the Road Bands in Search of an Audience Abroad [Lutgard Mutsaers] Joost Swarte, Knight of the Clear Line [Louis van Dievel] The Tao of Literature Life as it is, according to Patricia de Martelaere [Frank Hellemans] Two Extracts from The Unexpected Answer by Patricia de Martelaere Mystery on the March On Dirk Braeckman's Photos [Hans Aarsman] Doing the Fosbury Flop Gerrit Krol's Literary High-Jump [Ad Zuiderent] Two Poems and an Extract by Gerrit Krol One Only Has Oneself Fernand Khnopff, a Belgian Dandy in European Symbolism [Johan de Smet] A Beacon for Europe Emile Verhaeren 1855-1916 [Vic Nachtergaele] Four Poems by Emile Verhaeren Loud Chords and Calm Moments Louis Andriessen, Composer [Emile Wennekes] Leeuwarden: Triumph and tragedy [Peter Karstkarel] Yes, But Rembrandt as an Unstable Medium [Gary Schwartz] ‘Nothing worthwhile ever happens, except maybe some acts of consolation’ Literature according to Herman Brusselmans [Bart van der Straeten] Two Extracts by Hermans Brusselmans s‘Cast off the names that others had applied’ On the Poet Gerrit Achterberg [Peter de Bruijn] Two Poems by Gerrit Achterberg The Unexpected Popularity of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek [Klaas van Berkel] Such is our proud, though oft-diluted, Dutch heritage An Extract from John Updike's A Letter to My Grandsons Chronicle Architecture A Sea of Models The Second International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam Cultural Policy Forever Curious The Mondriaan Foundation ‘We pay too much attention to ourselves’ The Netherlands and International Cultural Policy Soundly Based, but not Set in Stone In Search of a Canon to be Cherished Dance and Theatre Ben Benaouisse or the Art of Remembering Language Of Rabbits and Queens The Hardship and Bliss of Learning Dutch ‘Good butter and good cheese is good English and good Frieze’ Frisian Language and Culture today History The Dutch Reformation Revisited One Foot in America Antwerp and the Emigrants of the Red Star Line Literature Clio Offside? University of Groningen Opens Biographical Institute Fate Decided Otherwise Henk van Woerden (1947-2005) Music Never Sell Out More than 25 Years of The Ex The Listener's Contribution Composing according to Joachim Brackx Science A Coffee-Cup Full of Helium Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) Society A Truck Every Three Seconds Antwerp and the Deurganckdok Citizenship is the Highest Office Job Cohen, ‘European Hero’ Visual Arts The Passion of Creating Christophe Coppens, Designer Artist Harmony The Conciliatory Figurativeness of Matthijs Röling Three Museums Working in Harmony The Vlaamsekunstcollectie Project Short Takes Contributors Translators