Rivers category: 174 books
The Freshwater Imperative
A Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This volume summarizes the two-year effort of a working group of leading aquatic scientists sponsored by NSF, EPA, NASA, TVA, and NOAA to identify research opportunities and frontiers in freshwater sciences for this decade and beyond. The research agenda outlined focuses on issues of water availability,...
West Midland Canals Through Time
Severn, Avon & Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
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...
Bitter Waters
The Struggles of the Pecos River
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the...
San Juan River Chronicle
Personal Remembrances of One of America's Premier Trout Streams
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
With an abundance of lyricism and insight, Steven Meyers writes about the natural history and sporting opportunities found on his home river, the San Juan of New Mexico. Rising out of southern Colorado's majestic San Juan Mountains and flowing through the arid hardscrabble of the Southwest, the San...
Flow
The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
The Schuylkill River-the name in Dutch means "hidden creek"-courses many miles, turning through Philadelphia before it yields to the Delaware. "I am this wide. I am this deep. A tad voluptuous, but only in places," writes Beth Kephart, capturing the voice of this natural resource...
River of Traps
A New Mexico Mountain Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016
New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures - Hispanic and Anglo - meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s,...
by Kay Beth Faris Avery
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Long before English speakers set eyes upon it, the volcanic plug on the south bank of the Huerfano River was tagged with a moniker that means "the orphan." Spanish conquistadors saw it as a rock pile that God dumped in the middle of nowhere, an odd little cone far removed from the regular foothills...
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!
by Andrew Sargent
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
500,000 Years in the Life of a River. The longest river in England, the Thames, has witnessed the entire history of a country and its capital. The Story of the Thames looks at history from the river’s perspective, investigating how the life of the nation has affected the river and, in turn, how...
River Notes
A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world’s mregulated river drainage. The Colorado River provides mof the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are home to more than 25 million people....
A Temporary Refuge
Fourteen Seasons with Wild Summer Steelhead
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
As featured in the documentary, DamNation (Patagonia, 2014). During his first summer, Spencer built a sheltered viewing platform, a place to sit with Sis and his notebook, and observe the denizens of the pool for months, and, finally, years on end. Shortly before setting up camp during his first season,...
The River Knows Everything
Desolation Canyon and the Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Desolation Canyon is one of the West's wild treasures. Visitors come to study, explore, run the river, and hike a canyon that is deeper at its deepest than the Grand Canyon, better preserved than most of the Colorado River system, and full of eye-catching geology-castellated ridges, dramatic walls,...
by Brandon Guzman, Miguel Velazquez
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The Tuolumne River begins up in the Sierra Nevada and flows through Mariposa County, Tuolumne County, and, finally, Stanislaus County. From its origins to the endpoint flowing into the San Joaquin River, it provides life and an economic source for this entire region. Once a major shipping route, it...
The Snake River
Window To The West
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Tim Palmer weaves natural history into a comprehensive account of the complex problems that plague natural resource managemthroughout the West, as well as the practical solutions that are available.