Rivers
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What Rivers Know: Listening to the Voices of Global Waterways
$38.00 Add to cart” . . . a one-of-a-kind treasure.”–Library Journal Reviews
What if rivers could talk and tell their stories? What would they tell us? In What Rivers Know, artist Basia Irland insinuates herself as t- Author: Irland, Basia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1648432565
- Language: English
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Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth
$19.95 Add to cartWater Bodies consider what becomes endangered when we lose sight of the power of water.
The human experience has always been shaped by water, by its absence and its abundance. Now, as the climate cris- Author: Paskus, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890920072
- Language: English
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Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River
$17.99 Add to cartAn impassioned meditation on American identity and its ebb and flow through the Capital’s great waterway
As she walks the length of the Potomac River, clambering up its banks and sounding its depths, C
- Author: Fryar, Charlotte Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1954276346
- Language: English
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Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
$18.00 Add to cartAward-winning journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present and future of water in the American West.
The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colo- Author: Hansman, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0226819973
- Language: English
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River Notes: Drought and the Twilight of the American West — A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
$17.95 Read moreAt a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers “both a love song and a paean of regret to America’s most spectacular river” (Denver Post) and “a
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1778401422
- Language: English
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Down the River
$17.00 Add to cartDown the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where th… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265630
- Language: English
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The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas
$63.00 Add to cartA stunningly illustrated atlas of the world’s rivers, estuaries, and deltas, and their ecosystems
From the Congo and the Mekong to the Seine and the Mississippi, Earth’s rivers carve through landscape- Author: Best, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 691244839
- Language: English
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River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin
$29.95 Read moreRiver of Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Klamath Basin, a region of the Pacific Northwest spanning the Oregon-California border. Indian reservations are at the headwaters, along the estuary,… [more below]
- Author: Most, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1962645185
- Language: English
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Fly-Fishing with Leonardo Da Vinci
$27.95 Add to cartLeonardo da Vinci was obsessed with water. The famed Italian Renaissance artist meticulously drew every aspect of rivers, from the nature of water drops to the ways currents create and destroy the ear… [more below]
- Author: Ladensohn, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1595343059
- Language: English
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Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River
$19.95 Add to cartJim O’Donnell sets off from his childhood home in Pueblo, Colorado exploring the history, ecology, and commodification of Fountain Creek–challenging us to reexamine how we relate to the world around … [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 369
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Elwha: A River Reborn
$29.95 Add to cartA compelling exploration of one of the largest dam removal projects in the world–and the efforts to save a stunning Northwest ecosystem
* Co-published with The Seattle Times
* 125 color photographs,- Author: Mapes, Lynda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1594857342
- Language: English
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The Cabin: A Search for Personal Sanctuary
$26.99 Add to cartOne hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means. Beautiful b
- Author: Wilson, Hap
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 23 2005
- ISBN10: 1897045050
- Language: English
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Rivers Run Through Us: A Natural and Human History of Great Rivers of North America
$38.00 Read moreAn engaging, informative, and personal exploration of some of the great rivers of North America.
The physical nature of rivers has influenced the course of human history and development, whether it be
- Author: Taylor, Eric B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1771605111
- Language: English
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Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
$16.95 Read moreAn exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk, and how a country recovers from conflict.… [more below]
- Author: Salama, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221613
- Language: English
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The Blue Nile
$17.99 Add to cartIn the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterra
- Author: Moorehead, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956402
- Language: English
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Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America’s Waterways
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Kelley, Tyler J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1501187066
- Language: English
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Rouge River Revived: How People Are Bringing Their River Back to Life
$24.95 Read moreThe Rouge River is a mostly urbanized watershed of about 500 square miles populated by nearly 1.4 million people. While not geographically large, the river has played an outsized role in the history o… [more below]
- Author: Hartig, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0472039083
- Language: English
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The Seine: The River That Made Paris
$17.95 Read moreBlending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sci
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358593
- Language: English
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In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water
$30.00 Read moreA writer’s travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River–exploring the long conflict over water supply
Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has- Author: Fergusson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300244150
- Language: English
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Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
$21.95 Read moreScience Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management–and perils in the mismanagement–of water in the western United States. It seems deceptively simple: even when clear evi… [more below]
- Author: Kuhn, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0816543232
- Language: English
