Rivers category: 174 books
Sources of the River, 2nd Edition
The Artwork of Ray Troll
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous...
The Bark River Chronicles
Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The Bark River valley in southeastern Wisconsin is a microcosm of the state's - indeed, of the Great Lakes region's - natural and human history. "The Bark River Chronicles" reports one couple's journey by canoe from the river's headwaters to its confluence with the Rock River and several...
by Blaine Harden
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
"Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." —Washington Post Book World
After 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...
Thames
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
In this perfect companion to London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey overflowing with characters, incidents, and wry observations. Thames: The Biography meanders gloriously, rather like the river itself....
Temple Stream
A Rural Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the talismans by which Bill Roorbach uncovers a natural universe along the stream that runs by his house in Farmington, Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters to whom Roorbach ("The Professor") and his family might always...
Leaving It To Beaver
Co-existence strategies for municipalities and landowners
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Conflict with nature will always occur, this is true. But by acknowledging the constant growth of biological and ecological sciences, we can mitigate – and at times entirely prevent – such conflicts.
The reason The Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals (APFA) has undertaken...
by Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Thomas McGuane
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A month-by-month chronicle of the fishing life, and a classic of angling literature from “one of the 20th century’s most gifted writers” on the subject (The New York Times).
As Steve Raymond proclaims in his introductory comments, A River Never Sleeps is “one of the greatest books about...
The Last River Rat
Kenny Salwey's Life in the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2005
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...
Better Trout Habitat
A Guide To Stream Restoration And Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Better Trout Habitat explains the physical, chemical, and biological needs of trout, and shows how climate, geology, vegetation, and flowing water all help to create trout habitat.
Chasing Clayoquot
A Wilderness Almanac
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
First published in 2004, and now with a new preface by the author, this book of natural history, environmentalism, and politics explores one of the earth's last primeval places: Clayoquot Sound. Close to a million visitors come to this unesco Biosphere Reserve along Vancouver Island's west coast,...
Water Ways
A thousand miles along Britain's canals
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives...
How to Save a River
A Handbook For Citizen Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
How to Save a River presents in a concise and readable format the wisdom gained from years of river protection campaigns across the United States. The book begins by defining general principles of action, including getting organized, planning a campaign, building public support, and putting a plan...
by John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities....
The Peace in Peril
The Real Cost of the Site C Dam
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
In the next decade, a 60-metre-high wall of compacted earth will stretch more than a kilometre across the main stem of the Peace River, causing the waters behind it to swell into a 93-square-kilometre artificial lake, drowning the best topsoil left in the BC north. The waters will swallow fifty islands...