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  • Kings of the Yukon

    An Alaskan River Journey

    by Adam Weymouth ...
    ****Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018 and the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2019**'Weymouth combines acute political, personal and ecological understanding, with the most beautiful writing reminiscent of a young Robert Macfarlane. He is, I have no doubt, a significant voice for the future' Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times literary editor**'Adam Weymouth ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Underland

    A Deep Time Journey - The bestselling nature book from the author of Is a River Alive?

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    Follow Robert Macfarlane to the furthest corners of the globe....A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyIn Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on... ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Danube

    by Claudio Magris ...
    In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the river's source in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid and Marcus Aurelius to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Custom Rod Thread Art

    by Dale P. Clemens ...
    "Hand a person a custom made rod," says expert rod maker Dale P. Clemens, "and in almost every instance one of the first things he looks at is the decorative thread work," because a handsome rod is more desirable to own and fish. Clemens guides his readers through the organizational process of threading, illustrates the uses of patterns and replicas, explains how to wrap and weave, and gives his ... Read more

    25,20 €

  • The Salton Sea

    An Account of Harriman’s Fight with the Colorado River

    by George Kennan ...
    In 1903, the US government tried to stop diversion of Colorado River water for use in the Imperial Valley. For that reason, and to bypass increased silting at the original intake, the California Development Company but a canal head in Mexico. A series of floods in 1905 destroyed a temporary dam and eroded the new canal intake. Water then rushed into the Imperial Canal-Alamo River system, allowing ... Read more

    3,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manchester Ship Canal Through Time

    by Steven Dickens ...
    Series series Through Time
    The Manchester Ship Canal was a huge engineering achievement. It included seven swing bridges and the aqueduct at Barton, and helped turn the cotton-producing capital of Great Britain into an inland seaport. This was a feat many at the time believed could not be achieved. One of the wonders of the modern industrial world, the Manchester Ship Canal, with its huge locks and ocean-going vessels, was ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • Bass, Pike, Perch and Others

    The Classic Reference Guide to Eastern North American Game Fish

    by James A. Henshall ...
    A North American fishing handbook from one of the great masters of the sport.First published in 1903, Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others remains a reliable resource for fishing enthusiasts in North America. As part of the American Sportman’s Library, this handbook was set apart as an important text on sporting subjects from an American perspective, provided here by Dr. James A. Henshall, who spent ... Read more

    12,60 €

  • A River Flows Through It

    A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia

    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    A River Flows Through It: A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia explores water disputes in Asia and addresses the question of how states sharing a river system can be incentivized to cooperate.Water scarcity is a major environmental, societal, and economic problem around the world. Increasing demand for water as a result of rapid economic development, high ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • River Mersey

    From Source to Sea

    by Phil Page, Ian Littlechilds ...
    Series series River
    'Water is Life and Heaven's Gift. Here Rivers Goyt and Tame Become Mersey. Flowing Clear From Stockport to the Sea' The Mersey springs to life in the centre of Stockport, fed by the Tame and Goyt rivers, which tumble down from the heart of the Peak District and the wild moors of the Pennines. Its 70-mile journey to the sea takes it through industrial and commercial landscapes, leafy residential ... Read more

    13,13 €

  • Understanding Nature Vol. 2: Fun Outdoor Activities for Kids

    Understanding Nature, #2

    by Rick McKeon ...
    Series Book 2 - Understanding Nature
    This is the second volume in the Understanding Nature series. My purpose for writing this volume is to encourage young people to get outdoors and enjoy the natural world. The benefits are many - exercise and fresh air, sparking curiosity and stimulating the imagination, developing a healthy attitude toward nature and other people, and just plain having FUN! Kids need to get out and be kids in a ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Fly Fishing the Southeast Coast

    A Complete Guide to Fishing Fresh and Salt Water

    by Gordon Churchill ...
    Gordon Churchill has been an enthusiastic angler all of his life, ever since he was little and would go fishing with his father in the lakes of upstate New York. Churchill shares his tips, tricks, and passion for fishing in Fly Fishing the Southeast Coast. Learn that you don’t have to travel to Bahamas or any other far exotic island to find the perfect catch. Many ideal places are right here in ... Read more

    17,18 €

  • Mississippi River Mayhem

    Disasters, Tragedy, and Murder on Ol' Man River

    by Dean Klinkenberg ...
    In his memoir, Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain personified the river as “Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother’s side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar’l of whiskey for breakfast when I’m in robust health, and a bushel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I’m ... Read more

    19,47 €

  • Gila

    The Life and Death of an American River, Updated and Expanded Edition.

    by Gregory McNamee ...
    For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona. Today, for at least half its length, the Gila is dead, like so many of the West’s great rivers, owing to overgrazing, damming, and other practices. This richly documented cautionary ... Read more

    19,47 €

  • The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority

    by John Williams ...
    Series series River Books, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power—and with that, modern-day civilization—to the hard-scrabble ... Read more

    7,30 €

  • Watershed Redemption

    by Diana Hartel ...
    Watershed Redemption, Diana Hartel’s sweeping, richly researched account conjures up a Bierstadt landscape. With elegant, crystal-clear prose, she weaves a dire yet hopeful tapestry of ecological ignorance, genocide, and tenacious activism. There is something for everyone—environmentalist, policy-maker, ethnologist, historian, biologist, epidemiologist, artist—in this powerful piece of advocacy. ... Read more

    9,11 €

  • Water Security in the Middle East

    Essays in Scientific and Social Cooperation

    Edited by Jean Axelrad Cahan ...
    Series Book 1 - Science Diplomacy: Managing Food, Energy and Water Sustainably
    Water Security in the Middle East argues that, while conflicts over transboundary water systems in the Middle East do occur, they tend not to be violent nor are they the primary cause of a war in this region. The contributors in this collection of essays place water disputes in larger political, historical and scientific contexts and discuss how the humanities and social sciences contribute ... Read more

    Free

  • Cultural Values and Transboundary River Protection under International Environmental Law

    by Sam Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    This book argues that there is an urgent need to reevaluate how international environmental law can enhance the ecological well-being of transboundary rivers.Through understanding the motivations behind river protection, the book identifies the cultural values associated with rivers and considers how these can be incorporated into international legal frameworks to enhance river protection. The ... Read more

    56,00 €

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  • Rivers of North America

    Edited by Michael D. Delong, Timothy D. Jardine, Arthur C. Benke, Colbert E. Cushing ...
    Rivers of North America, Second Edition features new updates on rivers included in the first edition, as well as brand new information on additional rivers. This new edition expands the knowledge base, providing readers with a broader comparative approach to understand both the common and distinct attributes of river networks. The first edition addressed the three primary disciplines of river ... Read more

    180,08 €

  • HIDRELÉTRICA E CORRUPÇÃO

    A luta para salvar o Rio Tibagi e uma das últimas florestas do Paraná

    by Adilson Brito ...
    Este livro tem o objetivo de perpetuar a história das conquistas sociais e ambientais protagonizadas pela organização ativista Liga Ambiental, por universidades e por cidadãos paranaenses. Os esforços para evitar a construção de uma sequência de grandes barragens no Rio Tibagi se estendeu entre 1984 e 2019. Esses momentos foram compilados e dispostos cronologicamente a partir de informações ... Read more

    7,14 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sky Time in Gray's River

    Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

    by Robert Michael Pyle ...
    An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River--long out of print, this classic of nature writing is being given a new life in trade paperback with a new afterword by the author.Sky Time in Gray ... Read more

    9,64 €

  • The Mekong: A Socio-legal Approach to River Basin Development

    by Ben Boer, Philip Hirsch, Fleur Johns, Ben Saul, Natalia Scurrah ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    An international river basin is an ecological system, an economic thoroughfare, a geographical area, a font of life and livelihoods, a geopolitical network and, often, a cultural icon. It is also a socio-legal phenomenon. This book is the first detailed study of an international river basin from a socio-legal perspective. The Mekong River Basin, which sustains approximately 70 million people ... Read more

    60,87 €

  • Rivers Run

    An Angler's Journey From Source to Sea

    by Kevin Parr ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING'A master of the landscape and a celebration of a life lived with the wild' – Dan Kieran, author of The Idle Traveller'[Parr] writes beautifully ... gentle, often elegiac ... There is much pleasure to be taken from this book' - Tom Fort, Gamefisher'Yet, sitting here at the beginning of that journey,... ... Read more

    11,54 €

  • Sea and River-side Rambles in Victoria

    Enriched edition. Exploring Victorian Waterfronts: A Nature Lover's Journey

    by Samuel Hannaford, Sterling Hale ...
    In "Sea and River-side Rambles in Victoria," Samuel Hannaford invites readers into an enriching exploration of the natural landscapes of Victoria, Australia. The book is characterized by its lush descriptive prose and keen observational style, capturing the interplay between the land and the sea. By weaving personal anecdotes with detailed accounts of flora, fauna, and geographical features, ... Read more

    Was 1,99 € Now 0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Following the River Camel

    by John Neale ...
    The River Camel, for much of its length, is arguably in the fi rst division of the most beautiful and interesting waterways in the West Country. This fascinating book, with its infectious and easily readable text, carries the reader on a colourful journey of discovery, from the river's quiet beginnings near Davidstow, through varying riverscapes, under bridges old and new, and past interesting ... Read more

    10,38 €