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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Severn Bore

    An Illustrated Guide

    by Chris Witts ...
    At numerous times throughout the year, thousands of people gather along the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire to see one of the wonders of the natural world. A combination of geography and high tides coincide to create the Severn Bore, a rare phenomenon and one of only about sixty river bores in the world. Due to the huge difference in tides, and the funnelling effect of the ever ... Read more

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  • The Snake River

    Window To The West

    by Tim Palmer ...
    Tim Palmer weaves natural history into a comprehensive account of the complex problems that plague natural resource management throughout the West, as well as the practical solutions that are available. ... Read more

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  • Outdoor Canoa Whitewater

    Una vacanza sull’acqua è un’esperienza entusiasmante e profondamente istruttiva. S’impara a non inquinare e si acquisisce il rispetto dell’ambiente. Navigare significa imparare a leggere il fiume, ad amarlo, assecondarlo, farselo amico, praticando una disciplina sportiva impegnativa, ma straordinaria, alla portata di tutti. Ci si mette alla prova nello scoprire i propri limiti, favorendo la ... Read more

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  • Canal Crimes

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Rivers, Ponds and Lakes

    by Nick Baker ...
    Series series Habitat Explorer
    A practical guide for kids aged 7-11, by popular Really Wild Show presenter Nick Baker, full of exciting things to see and do pretty much everywhere.The habitat explorers are a series of four books containing numerous step-by-step projects to lead the curious young naturalist off down a path of exploration. These guides are not simply a tick list of things you can see (though they teach all those ... Read more

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  • River Life and the Upspring of Nature

    by Naveeda Khan ...
    In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras, the people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Nature is a primary force at play within this existence as chauras live itinerantly and in flux with the ever-changing river flows; where land is here ... Read more

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  • Restigouche

    The Long Run of the Wild River

    by Philip Lee ...
    Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)Longlisted, Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book Awards (Non-Fiction)A CBC New Brunswick Book List SelectionAn Atlantic Books Today Must-Have New Brunswick Books of 2020 SelectionThe Restigouche River flows through the remote border region between the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, its magically transparent waters, soaring forest hillsides, ... Read more

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  • Youghiogheny

    Appalachian River, Revised Edition

    by Tim Palmer ...
    Series series Regional
    Turbulent rapids and wild shorelines of the Youghiogheny River highlight natural wonders of the Appalachian Mountains, and midway on the stream’s revealing path, Ohiopyle State Park is a showcase of beauty and has become a recreational hotspot where the river thunders over its iconic falls and cascades through the wooded gorges of Pennsylvania. With deep reflection, a compelling sense of adventure ... Read more

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  • Then, Now, and In-Between: Place, Memories, and Loss in Oregon

    Then, Now and In-Between is a compendium of essays and prose, many that first appeared on the author's blog, Musings About Life in Oregon. This series of writing is accompanied by photos and digs into old Oregon, with a nod to today, weaving in memories and stories with humor, sadness, and melancholy. ... Read more

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  • The Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

    by Julian Souter ...
    The Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal was completed in 1772 and links the Trent & Mersey Canal at Great Haywood in Staffordshire with the River Severn at Stourport in Worcestershire. Covering 46 miles, it has forty-three locks and today is frequented by leisure craft and walkers along its towpath. Once one of the major routes of the canal age, in its heyday it would have been thronged with ... Read more

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  • Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer

    International Studies on Contextual Water Management

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent. There has been a lot of attention in the field of public administration paid to policy transfer and institutional transplantation. This book aims to create a better understanding of such ... Read more

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  • Watercycle (Streams, Rivers, Lakes and Oceans): 2nd Grade Science Workbook | Children's Earth Sciences Books Edition

    Where do waters in streams and rivers go? Where do oceans lead to? These are important questions that need good answers. Luckily, there are resources – like this book – that have been designed especially for 2nd graders. Big words and systems have been cleverly reworded to make sure that even the young ones would understand them on their own. Such simplicity leads to a spike in the interest of ... Read more

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  • The Yellow River

    A Natural and Unnatural History

    by Ruth Mostern ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscapeFrom Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its watershed have both shaped and been shaped by human society. Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the ... Read more

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  • North West Canals Manchester, Irwell and the Peaks Through Time

    by Ray Shill ...
    Series series Through Time
    The history of the canals and waterways of North West England, including the Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal, Rochdale Canal, Huddersfield Canals, Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal and River Ribble, is traced through old and modern colour photographs. This is the second volume of North West Canals Through Time. The first volume, North West Canals Through Time: Merseyside, Weaver & Chester, was ... Read more

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  • In Search of the River Jordan

    A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water

    A writer’s travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River—exploring the long conflict over water supplyAccess to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has diverted the River Jordan via pipes and canals to build a successful modern state. But this has been at the expense of the region’s cohabitants. Gaza is now so water-stressed that the United Nations has ... Read more

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  • Major Rivers of the World | Earth Geography Grade 4 | Children's Geography & Cultures Books

    This time, you will read about the longest river in North America. Where does the Mississippi River begin and end? In which states does it flow through? What is the significant of the Mississippi River in the shaping of North American history and culture? If you are interested about geography and the major rivers in the world, then this book should be added to your collection. ... Read more

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  • West Midland Canals Through Time

    Severn, Avon & Birmingham

    by Ray Shill ...
    Series series Through Time
    This book is a study of waterways infrastructure and investigates through images and maps how the present midland network of canal and river navigations was put together. It is a complex history where some working waterways are approaching 250 years of existence, but where others span the distance of time with construction and modification extending right up to the present day. In some instances ... Read more

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  • Confluence

    Navigating the Personal & Political on Rivers of the New West

    by Zak Podmore ...
    **"Podmore's essays resemble Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau with an extra dose of social, racial and political analysis."—ARIZONA DAILY SUNIn the wake of his river–running mother's death,** Zak Podmore explores the healing power of wild places through a lens of grief and regeneration. Visceral, first–person narratives include a canoe crossing of the Colorado River delta during a rare ... Read more

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  • The Great Western Divide

    A History with Crow, Coyote, Chaos and God

    by John Spivey ...
    Imagine a night long campfire somewhere on the Kaweah River surrounded by, among others, Lao Tsu, Joseph Campbell, Clarence King (the first man to map the Great Western Divide), and Chappo, the last chief of the Potwisha. Hanging around the fringes, between the light and the dark, are Coyote and Crow. These are the spirits that inform the book as it continually poses the question, “Who are we ... Read more

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  • The Works of Samuel Scoville

    Samuel Scoville was an American lawyer, naturalist, and author. 'The Works of Samuel Scoville' is a collection of four books:Everyday AdventuresBrave Deeds Of Union SoldiersWild FolkThe Inca Emerald ... Read more

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  • Blue-Green Rehabilitation

    Urban Planning, Leisure and Tourism in River Cities

    In recent decades there has been a burgeoning interest in the development of blue-green corridors: areas where waterways are complemented by adjoining green spaces and related paths and leisure facilities. Urban planners have increasingly favoured such zones as a means of refreshing inner-city spaces. In many cases, such projects have involved the rehabilitation of former industrial and/or ... Read more

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