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  • The Big Sandy

    Series series Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
    The Big Sandy River and its two main tributaries, the Tug and Levisa forks, drain nearly two million mountainous acres in the easternmost part of Kentucky. For generations, the only practical means of transportation and contact with the outside world was the river, and, as The Big Sandy demonstrates, steamboats did much to shape the culture of the region. Carol Crowe-Carraco offers an intriguing ... Leer más

    $467 MXN

  • Fly Fishing Mastery

    A Guide to Fly Fishing

    de Baptiste ...
    Learn What It Takes To Become An Expert Fly FisherRemember when you were a kid sitting on the bank beside some lake or watering hole with your pole dangling in the water, a night crawler on the hook, hoping a fish would bite? Sometimes you would get a bite and other times you would get just a nibble. Your bait would be gone, but the fish didn’t get hooked. People still fish that way.Some may use a ... Leer más

    $20 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Hudson

    An Illustrated Guide to the Living River

    Since 1996, The Hudson: An Illustrated Guide to the Living River has been an essential resource for understanding the full sweep of the great river's natural history and human heritage. This updated third edition includes the latest information about the ongoing fight against pollution and environmental damage to the river, plus vibrant new full-color illustrations showing the plants and wildlife ... Leer más

    $373 MXN

  • Mega-Dams in World Literature

    Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building

    Mega-Dams in World Literature reveals the varied effects of large dams on people and their environments as expressed in literary works, focusing on the shifting attitudes toward large dams that emerged over the course of the twentieth century. Margaret Ziolkowski covers the enthusiasm for large-dam construction that took place during the mid-twentieth-century heyday of mega-dams, the increasing ... Leer más

    $286 MXN

  • Contested Waters

    An Environmental History of the Colorado River

    "To fully understand this river and its past, one must examine many separate pieces of history scattered throughout two nations--seven states within the United States and two within Mexico--and sort through a large amount of scientific data. One needs to be part hydrologist, geologist, economist, sociologist, anthropologist, and historian to fully understand the entire story. Despite this river's ... Leer más

    $323 MXN

  • Flow

    The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River

    de Beth Kephart ...
    The Schuylkill River-the name in Dutch means "hidden creek"-courses many miles, turning through Philadelphia before it yields to the Delaware. "I am this wide. I am this deep. A tad voluptuous, but only in places," writes Beth Kephart, capturing the voice of this natural resource in Flow.An award-winning author, Kephart's elegant, impressionistic story of the Schuylkill navigates the beating heart ... Leer más

    $380 MXN

  • Overtapped Oasis

    Reform Or Revolution For Western Water

    Overtapped Oasis analyzes the West's water allocation system from top to bottom and offers dozens of revolutionary proposals for increased efficiency and policy reform. Marc Reisner and Sarah Bates argue that the West's underlying problem is not a shortage of water but the inefficient use of it, a problem caused by a bewildering tangle of federal subsidy programs, restrictive state water codes, ... Leer más

    $274 MXN

  • Elementals: Water, Vol. 3

    Elementals, #3

    Series Libro 3 - Elementals
    Water, Volume 3 of the 5-Volume Elementals series, is a stunning collection of essays, poetry, and stories that illuminate the dynamic relationships between people and place, human and nonhuman life, mind and the material world, and the living energies that make all life possible.We are deeply dependent on water. In conjunction with the other elementals, water makes us and the living Earth ... Leer más

    $432 MXN

  • River of Redemption

    Almanac of Life on the Anacostia

    Series series Will and Pamela Nelson Harte Series on Water and the Environment, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    Incorporating seven years of photography and research, Krista Schlyer portrays life along the Anacostia River, a Washington, DC, waterway rich in history and biodiversity that has nonetheless lingered for years in obscurity and neglect in our nation’s capital. River of Redemption offers an experience of the river that reveals its eons of natural history, centuries of destruction, and decades of ... Leer más

    $150 MXN

  • The Organic Machine

    The Remaking of the Columbia River

    de Richard White ...
    Series series Hill and Wang Critical Issues
    The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the ... Leer más

    $169 MXN

  • Nel fiume della notte

    de Piero Spirito ...
    Series series Gli erranti
    Un viaggio al centro della Terra lungo il corso del fiume della notte attraverso abissi e laghi sotterranei, impetuose risorgive e infidi mulinelli. Pietro Spirito insegue le acque fantasma del Timavo, uno dei più affascinanti fiumi carsici del mondo, dalle sorgenti nei boschi della Croazia alle foci nell'Adriatico. Ascolta il respiro del fiume misterioso, in un mondo capovolto che custodisce miti ... Leer más

    $195 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Borne by the River

    Canoeing the Delaware from Headwaters to Home

    de Rick Van Noy ...
    After a near-fatal stroke and a separation, amidst a global pandemic, Rick Van Noy decided to go for a paddle. In Borne by the River, he charts the story of discovery, and healing that came from this solo canoe journey. Paddling two hundred miles on the Delaware River to his boyhood home just upriver from Trenton, New Jersey, Van Noy contemplates his fate and life, as well as the simple joy of ... Leer más

    $213 MXN

  • Canal Crimes

    de R. H. Davies ...
    Covering an area from Liverpool to London, Canal Crimes explores the whole range of criminal activity on Britain's Waterways during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Criminal court cases range from the opportunistic sixteen-year-old who was transported for seven years for stealing a man's clothes whilst he went for a dip, to those who seem to have literally got away with murder, and ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • HIDRELÉTRICA E CORRUPÇÃO

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $138 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Chattahoochee River User's Guide

    The Chattahoochee River is one of the premier waterways of Georgia and the Southeast. It is a mecca for summer recreation, a priceless natural resource that provides water and power for a great number of Georgia’s citizens, and an essential component to the region’s ecosystem. As public interest in both exploring and protecting Georgia’s rivers such as the Chattahoochee grows, so too has the ... Leer más

    $426 MXN

  • Exploring the River Fowey

    de John Neale ...
    The third of John Neale's books looking at Cornish rivers takes us down the Fowey, from its source on Bodmin Moor to its estuary at Fowey itself. Beginning near Brown Willy, the river soon flows near the famous Jamaica Inn and on to Golitha Falls, passing age-old slate caverns before turning abruptly to make its way toward Lanhydrock House, Boconnoc House and Restormel Castle and on to Lostwithiel ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • Along the Toms River

    Series series Images of America
    See the people, places and events that have defined the city of Toms River and its surrounding area since the early 1700s. Located on the banks of the river of the same name, Toms River was first settled in the early 1700s by loggers drawn to the dense forests on the river's banks. During the American Revolution, the village was a constant thorn in the side of the British, and it was attacked and ... Leer más

    $204 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Goodly Barrow 

    A Voyage on an Irish River

    Goodly Barrow is a long-unavailable classic that charts the history and character of Ireland's second-longest river, from the Slieve Bloom Mountains to the sea in Waterford. T.F. O'Sullivan's riverine narrative embraces legend and song, literature and anecdote, viewing Irish history through the prism of the waterway: from the early tribal kingdoms of the Celts, to the Vikings and Normans who made ... Leer más

    $116 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Wilts & Berks Canal Through Time

    de Doug Small ...
    Series series Through Time
    Always known as the Wilts & Berks Canal, never Wiltshire and Berkshire, the W&B has been derelict and abandoned for over a century, but plans exist to restore the waterway. Over sixty miles long, the project has many interesting challenges to overcome. With branches to Cricklade (on the Thames & Severn Canal), Chippenham, Calne and Wantage, and a route through the middle of Swindon, the plan is ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • Rewilding the Urban Frontier

    River Conservation in the Anthropocene

    Edición de Greg Gordon ...
    More so than other ecosystems, urban rivers typify our evolving relationship with nature. Once a necessity for the development of civilization, by the twentieth century America’s rivers became neglected and abused, channelized, dammed, and filled with sewage and toxic waste. While acknowledging the profound impact our species has had on the natural world, and on rivers in particular, Rewilding the ... Leer más

    $809 MXN

  • Ichetucknee Springs - A History and Culture of a Florida Spring

    de P.C. Zick ...
    Ichetucknee Springs, a north Florida gem , remains a breathtaking natural wonder. For centuries, folks have enjoyed the crystal clear and cooling depths of the eight-named springs and the river formed from the first magnitude flow of those springs. Enjoy this look at the history and culture filled with stories from those who have experienced its peaceful beauty. This 20,000 word book provides the ... Leer más

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  • Waterways of East Shropshire Through Time

    de Neil Clarke ...
    Series series Through Time
    The history of East Shropshire has had a global impact, with Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale acknowledged as the ‘Cradle of the Industrial Revolution’. In this book, local industrial history expert Neil Clarke examines through photographs and old drawings the history of the waterways in this area, which both came from the Industrial Revolution and enabled its growth, looking at the early uses of the ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • 愛河漫遊:永浴愛河文史旅遊大攻略

    Love River Strolling

    de 沈政璋 ...
    醫生作家 文史工作者沈政璋耗時三年,繼《鹽埕漫遊》後另一大作大器文創廖繼稔◎水彩畫家賴怡蓁傾心繪製精美揷圖✽ ✽ ✽魂縈夢迴到高雄,只為愛河走一回!用一條愛河,是可以把整個高雄串起來的……是像珍珠一樣串起高雄美麗的城市風貌。──沈政璋每個城市的故事一定是從一條河開始……一條河的前生今世,往往也是預視我們未來的管道。──李偉文∕牙醫師.作家.環保志工世界上偉大的城市,必有偉大的河流水路。而偉大的水路,必先有打從心裡尊重,且向水學習,與水和平共生共存的住民。──謝一麟∕三餘書店愛河流過高雄這座城,也流經城裡每個高雄人的生命之中……愛河不僅是一條城市之河,更是生命之流,容納生死也包容悲歡。──邱承漢∕捌地方生活<... ... Leer más

    $153 MXN

  • Feathers and Scales

    Writings About Birds and Butterflies

    The author retired from the National Park Service after a 32-year career as a park ranger, biologist, and administrator. He worked in seven national parks: Crater Lake, Death Valley, Pinnacles, Zion, Big Bend, Great Smoky Mountains, and the Virgin Islands. He also served as Southwest Region Chief Scientist in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and as Chief of Resource Management and Chief Scientist for the ... Leer más

    $69 MXN