Langs het IJsselmeer

Photographs made along, on and above the IJsselmeer present the lake and its shores as they appeared more than ninety years after Jac. P. Thijsse travelled around the former Zuiderzee. Photographer Bert Verhoeff and journalist Rolf Bos retraced Thijsse’s routes on foot, by bicycle, by boat and from the air, assembling a contemporary account of the landscape and life around the water. The book is arranged in six chapters and pairs Verhoeff’s visual record with Bos’s present-day stories and passages from Thijsse’s “Langs de Zuiderzee.” Together, these elements compare past and present while following the region’s transition from a working sea to a recreational lake.