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  • Salmon

    A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate

    "Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Who hears the fishes when they cry?' Maybe we need to go down to the river bank and try to listen."In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and ... Read more

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  • By the River

    Essays from the Water's Edge

    Memory flows like a river, and it is through its constant flow that we come into being. Twelve of our most exciting contemporary writers consider the subject of rivers and how they shape us throughout our lives, demarcating cities as well as moulding our creative consciousness. Tessa Hadley revisits Rumer Godden's The River; Jo Hamya pays homage to Virginia Woolf; Michael Malay goes nightfishing ... Read more

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  • Cadillac Desert

    The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

    **“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the ... Read more

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  • Riverlands of the Anthropocene

    Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene. The book asks how humans can learn through sensory embodied encounters with local waterways that shape the architecture of cities and make global connections with environments everywhere.The book considers human becomings with urban waterways to ... Read more

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  • The Last River Rat

    Kenny Salwey's Life in the Wild

    Kenny Salwey is a modern-day American hermit who has lived most of his life in the Mississippi river bottoms, coming to know the river ecosystem with an intimacy unavailable to most. Now, Kenny shares his love of, and knowledge about, the mighty river. The Last River Rat is a seasonal look at Kenny’s unique life. Each chapter covers a month of Kenny’s year and starts by detailing his activities ... Read more

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  • A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)

    The Life and Death of the Columbia

    by Blaine Harden ...
    "Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." —Washington Post Book WorldAfter two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West’s most thoroughly conquered river. To explore the Columbia River and befriend those who collaborated in its destruction, he traveled on a ... Read more

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  • The Cult of Water

    Series Book 3 - Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
    Aided by a witch and the magician Alan Moore, David Bramwell takes an occult journey back in time up the river Don, in search of the supernatural secrets of our waterways and to solve the mystery of a drowned village which has long haunted his memories. Travelling through the industrial destruction of our landscape he arrives in a pre-Christian era when well and springs were worshipped as living ... Read more

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  • Saving Grand Canyon

    Dams, Deals, and a Noble Myth

    2020 Winner of the Southwest Book Awards2020 Spur Awards Finalist Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of AmericaThe Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific ... Read more

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  • A Year in Nature

    A Celebration of the Seasons

    by Lia Leendertz ...
    A Year in Nature is a captivating journey across the countryside through the seasons.A delightful voyage through the seasons, each page sparkles with wonder and gentle surprises. From spring's first blossoms dancing in the breeze to winter's quiet hush beneath a blanket of snow, A Year in Nature celebrates the magic woven into each month, where birds chatter like storytellers, leaves whirl in ... Read more

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  • Travels on the St. Johns River

    A selection of writings from naturalists John and William Bartram, who explored Florida in 1765In 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens and recorded extensive observations of the region’s plants, animals, geography, ecology, and Native ... Read more

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  • Canyons of the Colorado

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Wild Frontiers of the American West

    In 'Canyons of the Colorado,' John Wesley Powell presents a meticulous exploration of the Colorado River and its dramatic canyons, intertwining scientific observation with poetic description. Published in 1895, this work is both a travelogue and a natural history, reflecting the Victorian era's fascination with the American West. Powell's narrative is imbued with a sense of adventure and profound ... Read more

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  • Elementals: Water, Vol. 3

    Elementals, #3

    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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  • Swamps & Ponds Animal Life : 2nd Grade Geography Workbook Series

    Second Grade Books

    Series series Children's Environment Books
    Make complex subjects easy to understand by breaking them down into bits and pieces of information. The use of images is a powerful tool to drive attention to a wonderful resource for geography. This workbook is very child-friendly and will be very appealing even to those who despise reading. After all, there are only a few lines to read in this book, but more lessons can be learned. Grab a copy ... Read more

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

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Revitalizing Urban Waterway Communities

    Streams of Environmental Justice

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe. This book presents models and examples for organizing multiple stakeholders for purposes of waterway revitalization—if not restoration—within a context of fairness and environmental justice.After decades of neglect and misuse the challenge of cleaning ... Read more

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  • Two Ornithologists on the Lower Danube - Being a Record of a Journey to the Dobrogea and the Danube Delta with a Systematic List of the Birds Observed

    First published in 1925, this volume contains an interesting account of an ornithological trip to the Danube Delta, the second largest river delta in Europe primarily situated in Romania and the Ukraine. It offers brief descriptions of the countries travelled through and their people, but focuses on what the two English men got up to and what they saw in the way of bird life. This interesting and ... Read more

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  • The Georgian Bay Ship Canal

    Canada's Abandoned National Dream

    The Georgian Bay Ship Canal was a river and lake canalization scheme designed to create a commercial waterway along the route of the voyageurs. It was the dream of Canadian businessmen and entrepreneurs for centuries. Originally a trade route for Indigenous peoples, it became Canada's first Trans-Canada Highway during the fur trade, greatly contributing to the economic development of the colonies ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Ameritrekking Adventures: Visiting Missouri Headwaters State Park in Montana

    by Joseph Whelan ...
    This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 6 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet.This short story tells the tale of the author's visit to Missouri Headwaters State Park. The park is in Montana, not Missouri. The visit took place in the same year (1997) as the third Ameritrek, the subject of the ... Read more

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  • A Story of Six Rivers

    History, Culture and Ecology

    by Peter Coates ...
    Many of the world’s major cities sprang up on the banks of rivers. Used for water, food, irrigation, transportation and power, rivers sustain life and connect places and countries, but most of us think of them simply as waterways that must be crossed on the way to somewhere else. Relating the biographies of four European and two North American rivers, A Story of Six Rivers considers the place of ... Read more

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  • Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People

    Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action

    Series series Nature, Society, and Culture
    Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsSince time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made their way up and down the Klamath River. Indigenous management enabled the ecological abundance that formed the basis of capitalist wealth across North America. These activities on the landscape continue today, although they are often the site of ... Read more

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  • Tributary Voices

    Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River

    Series series Waterscapes: History, Cultures, and Controversies
    The Colorado River is in crisis. Persistent drought, climate change, and growing demands from ongoing urbanization threaten this life-source that provides water to more than forty million people in the U.S. and Mexico. Coupled with these challenges are our nation’s deeply rooted beliefs about the region as a frontier, garden, and wilderness that have created competing agendas about the river as ... Read more

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  • Rivers of History

    Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama

    An illuminating study of how rivers shaped the history, culture, and environment of Alabama and the American South.In Rivers of History, acclaimed historian Harvey H. Jackson III blends environmental history with compelling storytelling and traces the evolving relationship between people and rivers—from Indigenous communities who first depended on these waterways, to European settlers, to the ... Read more

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  • Fountain Creek

    Big Lessons from a Little River

    by Jim O'Donnell ...
    Jim O’Donnell sets off from his childhood home in Pueblo, Colorado exploring the history, ecology, and commodification of Fountain Creek—challenging us to reexamine how we relate to the world around us and how we might break free to a brighter future.Over the past two hundred years, society has taken what was once a sacred relationship with water and morphed rivers into trashed, overused ... Read more

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