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

    The Nile River has been flowing for generations, and with it, history was made. In this book, you are going to read and learn about the Nile River as one of the major and most historic rivers in the world. It’s important to learn about geography to fully grasp its cultural context too. Go ahead and grab a copy today. ... Read more

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  • They're in the River (Picador Shorts)

    by John McPhee ...
    Series series Picador Shorts
    **A master chronicler of American life introduces us to the iconic and most curious American shad.A pithy, humorous, and illuminating standalone extract from John McPhee’s twenty-sixth book, The Founding Fish.**McPhee, himself a shad fisherman, recounts the fascinating life and ways of this great American wayfarer, most famous for its Odyssean journey as it leaves the ocean in crowds of millions, ... 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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  • Through the Brazilian Wilderness

    Enriched edition. An Account of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition

    In 'Through the Brazilian Wilderness' by Theodore Roosevelt, readers are taken on an exhilarating journey through the uncharted jungles of Brazil. Written with a gripping narrative style, Roosevelt vividly describes the wildlife, landscapes, and indigenous peoples he encounters, offering readers a firsthand account of his adventures. This non-fiction masterpiece not only showcases Roosevelt's ... Read more

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  • The Moselle

    River and Canal from the Roman Empire to the European Economic Community

    Series series Heritage
    The Moselle has been one of the main arteries of European Communication and transportation for centuries. The Romans used it as a main thoroughfare from southern to northern Europe and also began the improvements to its navigation that have continued intermittently through the industrial revolution to the present day. Professor Cermakian focuses on the historical, political, and geographical ... Read more

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  • 江河:山川江河之美

    中华文化也叫华夏文化、华夏文明,是中国各民族文化的总称,是中华文明在发展过程中汇集而成的一种反映民族特质和风貌的民族文化,是中华民族历史上各种物态文化、精神文化、行为文化等方面的总体表现。中华文化是居住在中国地域内的中华民族及其祖先所创造的、为中华民族世世代代所继承发展的、具有鲜明民族特色而内涵博大精深的传统优良文化,历史十分悠久,流传非常广泛,在世界上拥有巨大的影响。中华文化源远流长,*直接的源头是黄河文化与长江文化,这两大文化浪涛经过千百年冲刷洗礼和不断交流、融合以及沉淀,*终形成了求同存异、兼收并蓄的中华文化。千百年来,中华文化薪火相传,一脉相承,是世界上五千年绵延不绝从没中断的古老文化,并始终充满了生机与活力,这充分展现了中华文化顽强的生命力。中华文化的顽强生命力,已经深深熔铸到我们的创造力和凝聚力中,是我们民族的基因。中华民族的精神,也已深深植根于绵延数千年的文化传统之中 ... Read more

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  • The Danube

    A Cultural History

    Series Book 7 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe. Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany's Black Forest, it touches or winds its way through ten countries and four capital cities before emptying into the Black Sea through a vast delta whose silt-filled channels spread across eastern Romania. From earliest times the river has provided a route from Europe to Asia that was ... Read more

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  • Britain’s Game Fishes

    Celebration and Conservation of Salmonids

    Series series Pelagic Monographs
    Game fishes, particularly those of the salmon family, are critical indicators of the health of those ecosystems upon which we now know we are dependent. As the authors of this important environmental book argue, “Our game fishes [then] serve as more than merely an indicator of healthy waters. Instead, they can be regarded as iconic of the ecosystems in which they occur.” Moreover, “the quality ... 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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  • Canal Boat Lives

    by Gill Shaw ...
    Britain’s canals were largely built during the Industrial Revolution to move goods around the country. In time, this network linked the major cities, taking the narrowboats and their cargoes into the heart of urban areas. Today, the canals have been largely converted to leisure use but growing numbers of people are also turning to canals as places to live. Today’s increasingly expensive and dense ... 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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  • Valoración de servicios ecosistémicos generados por la construcción de infraestructuras

    desarrollo de la metodologÌa

    La valoración de los servicios ecosistémicos, bien sean naturales o generados por la incorporación de infraestructuras al medio, es una demanda cada día más presente en todos los estudios medioambientales. En los últimos decenios han sido numerosas las tentativas que se han llevado a cabo tratando de cuantificar la riqueza que los Bienes y Servicios Ecosistémicos aportan. Se han empleado distintos ... Read more

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  • My Fly-Fishing Days

    Pennsylvania Streams and Other Watery Worlds

    by Mike Reuther ...
    Trout streams are clean, cool running bodies of water found in the most scenic places in America. For fly fishers, they are magnets, beckoning them, haunting their dreams. Mike Reuther knows the magical lure of creeks and rivers. For him, they hold cherished memories. My Fly-Fishing Days takes the reader to some of those trout streams, from Reuther’s native Pennsylvania to the fabled waters of the ... Read more

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  • Freshwater Sponges of Tennessee

    Authors John Copeland and Stan Kunigelis explore a unique but important class of animals that may be unfamiliar to many readers: freshwater sponges. Freshwater Sponges of Tennessee provides comprehensive information about sponges in Tennessee waterways, vastly updating both the scientific community and the reading public on sponge biodiversity and conservation.Copeland and Kunigelis offer ... Read more

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  • Natural Theology - Exploring Nature Through a Spiritual Lensh a Spiritual Lens

    The God Gap, #2

    Series Book 2 - The God Gap
    Natural Theology - Exploring Nature through a Spiritual Lens is the journey of an ordinary man who led two extraordinary lives. By merging facts about natural phenomena and spiritual practices, he bridged the gap between scientific theory and the reality of nature. He came to believe in a Higher Power behind all that exists.In this accesible book, he shares the path he took and argues that anyone ... Read more

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  • An Ocklawaha River Odyssey

    Paddling Through Natural History

    Series series Natural History
    Photojournalists Bob and Liz Randall spent two years exploring Florida's ancient and enchanting Ocklawaha River. Their journey provides an inside look at the rich recreational resources of the river, its wildlife and the people, past and present, who contributed to its history and welfare. Along the way, they met artists, environmentalists, captains, law enforcement officials, conservationists, ... Read more

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  • River Welland

    Series series River
    THE RIVER WELLAND has been a main waterway through South Lincolnshire for centuries, flowing through Stamford, Market Deeping, Deeping St James, Crowland, Spalding and finally out to the sea at Fosdyke. This beautifully illustrated book is concerned principally with the role the Welland has played on its journey through the Deepings. Dorothea Price explores the history of the river prior to the ... Read more

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  • La mesure économique des bénéfices attachés aux hydrosystèmes

    by Patrick Point ...
    Résumés des travaux et commentaires des experts sur les thèmes suivants : la valeur de l'eau à usage récréatif (application aux rivières du Limousin), l'évaluation d'une politique de protection de la biodiversité des forêts riveraines de la Garonne, évaluation des politiques publiques d'assainissement en zone littorale (l'analyse "coûts-bénéfices" appliquée au cas de la rade de Brest), une mesure ... Read more

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  • Canoeing in the Wilderness

    From the great nature writer behind Walden comes an account of a trip he made into the wilderness. ... Read more

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  • Tree of Rivers

    The Story of the Amazon

    by John Hemming ...
    Amazonia contains by far the world's largest river and the greatest expanse of tropical rain forest, home to the greatest biological diversity on the planet. This enthralling book brilliantly explains why the rain forest is crucial for our planet's survival, and vividly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place to utilize, protect and understand it. John Hemming's thrilling account ... Read more

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  • Nature and History in the Potomac Country

    From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson

    by James D. Rice ...
    How environmental forces, and human responses to them, profoundly shaped both Native American and colonial life along the Potomac River.James D. Rice’s fresh study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly three-quarters of the land uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice wonders how ... Read more

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