Rivers category: 174 books
Beyond Control
The Mississippi River’s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night...
Restoring Neighborhood Streams
Planning, Design, and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Thirty years ago, the best thinking on urban stream managemprescribed cemas the solution to flooding and other problems of people and flowing water forced into close proximity. Urban streams were perceived as little more than flood control devices designed to hurry water through cities and neighborhoods...
Fields and Streams
Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.
Stream restoration science and practice...
Mountains to Sea
Solving New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
'It strikes me with great clarity that if you look at the problems in isolation they each seem intractable; but when you grasp that there could be one single solution, then suddenly there is a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel.'
The state of New Zealand’s freshwater has become a pressing...
The Organic Machine
The Remaking of the Columbia River
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
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...
by Nick Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The twentieth anniversary edition of the acclaimed memoirist’s masterpiece of Montana fly fishing with a new preface by the author—“I love Nick Lyons’s books” (Ted Hughes).
The Spring Creek river in central Montana is where you’ll find trout as long as your arm—trout that are...
Goodbye to a River
A Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged...
The Man Who Walked Through Time
The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
Paddlenorth
Adventure, Resilience, and Renewal in the Arctic Wild
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Paddlenorth tells the riveting story of ’s 54 day paddling adventure on the Back River, in the northern wilderness of the subarctic, as she and her five companions battle raging winds, impenetrable sea ice, and treacherous rapids. The perils include rising tensions among the group, but these are...
by William H. Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain. "Parallel journeys of mind-boggling proportions a 225-mile raft tour of river runners, and an expertly guided trip back through time to trace our origins. As the author explores such natural wonders as fossils, waterfalls, rapids and stars, he visits nearly...
My River Chronicles
Rediscovering the Work that Built America; A Personal and Historical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
After journalist Jessica DuLong was laid off from her dot-com job, her life took an unexpected turn. A volunteer day aboard an antique fireboat, the John J. Harvey, led to a job in the engine room, where she found a taste of home she hadn’t realized she was missing. Working with the boat’s finely...
by Ocean County Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
This fascinating visual history features more than two hundred carefully selected photographs that together document the people, places, and events that have defined the city of Toms River and the surrounding area. Located on the banks of the river of the same name, Toms River was first settled in...
The Chippewa
Biography of a Wisconsin Waterway
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Inspired by August Derleth’s seminal book The Wisconsin, Richard D. Cornell traveled the Chippewa River from its two sources south of Ashland to where it joins the Mississippi. Over several decades he returned time and again in his red canoe to immerse himself in the stories of the Chippewa River...
Elevations
A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Max McCoy embarked on a trip of 742 miles in search of the river's unique story. Part adventure and part...