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The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado

The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado more books like this

by Eliot Porter, David Ross Brower (Editor)

One of the important historic and aesthetic records of Glen Canyon. The sheer exquisite beauty of Eliot Porter's photographs of this wilderness gorge makes this one of the loveliest books ever published. Contains the best photographs from the 1963 edition and previously unpublished photographs from Porter's archives. 80 color plates.

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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia more books like this

by Blaine Harden

The story of how well-meaning Americans dammed up the Columbia River in the North-Western United States, to produce cheap electricity and gardens blooming in the desert. This narrative of exploitation records how one of the West's most majestic rivers was sacrificed to economic advance.

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Rivers of America

Rivers of America more books like this

by Tim Palmer (Photographer)

Many people spend their happiest days fishing, paddling, or simply sitting by a river's sometimes peaceful, sometimes turbulent flow. Yet no book has ever truly captured the magic of the water; none has fully honoured this majestic feature of our national landscape. Tim Palmer is a rare exception - a photographer and conservationist who is also a ...

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Niagara: A History of the Falls

Niagara: A History of the Falls more books like this

by Pierre Berton

Few natural wonders have inspired the passions and the imaginations of so many as Niagara Falls, whose sublime beauty and awesome power have made it a magnet for statesmen and stuntmen, poets and poseurs, ordinary sightseers and exceptional visionaries. Popular historian Pierre Berton traces the history and allure of this great natural phenomena. ...

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River Days: Exploring the Connecticut River from Source to Sea

River Days: Exploring the Connecticut River from Source to Sea more books like this

by Michael J Tougias

Michael Tougias weaves a rich narrative of history fishing lore and natural history that celebrates this American Heritage River

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Canoeing a Continent: On the Trail of Alexander MacKenzie

Canoeing a Continent: On the Trail of Alexander MacKenzie more books like this

by Max Finkelstein

A highly personal account of the travels of Max Finkelstein as he retraces, some two hundred years later, the route of Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to cross North America (1793). Mackenzie's water trail is now commemorated as the Alexander Mackenzie Voyageur Route. More than just a travelogue of a canoe trip across Canada, this is an ...

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One River More

One River More more books like this

by W D Wetherell

A lyrical celebration of the delights of fly fishing, the beauty of rivers, and the splendor of the natural world--by an award-winning author, called "a natural storyteller and a gifted observer" by "Booklist". Decorative drawings.

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Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water

Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water more books like this

by Kathleen Dean Moore

In twenty elegant essays flow Moore's life as a professor of philosophy, down the natural channels of her native streams and rivers of the Pacific Northwest watershed. "Moore's collection sparkles as brightly as one of her sun-dappled streams". -- Kirkus Reviews

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Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River

Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River more books like this

by Peter Heller

A grand adventure-an elite kayaking team's heroic conquest of the worlds last great adventure prize: Tibet's Tsangpo River. The Tsangpo Gorge in southeastern Tibet has lured explorers and adventurers since its discovery. Sacred to the Buddhists, the inspiration for Shangri La, the Gorge is as steeped in legend and mystery as any spot on earth. As ...

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The Allagash

The Allagash more books like this

by Lew Dietz

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Explorations of Pere Marquette more books like this

by Jim Kjelgaard, James Arthur Kjelgaard

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Crazy for Rivers more books like this

by Bill Barich

The author of "Laughing in the Hills" and" Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California" offers a lyrical reminiscence of a magical autumn of fishing--and a lifetime love affair with rivers. Line drawings.

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From the Bottom Up: One Man's Crusade to Clean America's Rivers more books like this

by Jeff Barrow, Chad Pregracke

Chad Pregracke was a high school student when he first glimpsed the trash that littered the bottom of the Mississippi, a shocking sight that launched him on a quest to clean up the river. After four discouraging years seeking government help without success, he decided to take his fund-raising private--and a corporate sponsor decided to take a ...

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The Hudson: An Illustrated Guide to the Living River more books like this

by Stephen P Stanne, Roger G Panetta, Brian E Forist

The Hudson River is one of the great rivers of the world. Not long ago, it was seriously threatened by pollution. Now, it is coming back to life as a waterway where fish and birds can thrive again - a river valued once more by communities along its shores. The environmental education program on board the sloop Clearwater, founded by folksinger ...

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My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson more books like this

by Jessica Dulong (Narrator)

When DuLong ditches her desk job to ply the waters of the Hudson River, she finds a home in a maritime community that was quickly disappearing. Here, she weaves together stories of life on the water with tales from Hudson Valley history. b&w photos throughout.

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River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River more books like this

by Bill Belleville

In the first contemporary book about this American Heritage River, Bill Belleville describes his journey down the length of the St. Johns, kayaking, boating, hiking its riverbanks, diving in its springs, and exploring its underwater caves. He rediscovers the natural Florida and establishes his connection with a place once loved for its untamed ...

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Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon more books like this

by John Hemming

This enthralling book brilliantly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. Hemmings riveting account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, ...

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Smithsonian Atlas Amazon more books like this

by Melinda Jorge Gondim Lilly, Professor Michael Goulding

Surely the standard source for years to come.

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Water, Earth, and Sky: The Colorado River Basin more books like this

by Michael Collier, Ellen Meloy, Lawrence E Stevens

Through photographs taken from a Cessna and six essays on the natural history of the region, readers view the Colorado River Basin as if it were a grand banquet spread before them. 140 color photos.

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Natural Lives, Modern Times: People and Places of the Delaware River more books like this

by Bruce Stutz

The Delaware River flows out of New York's Catskill Mountains and winds its way through woodland and rural farmland, through the great Water Gap ravine, and finally past one of the world's most industrialized riverfronts. Yet it remains one of the country's last undammed rivers, with a natural life as rich and varied as its human history. In ...

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Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser more books like this

by Richard C Bocking

The Fraser River's domain is vast: its basin encompasses half of British Columbia's forests and agricultural lands, the majority of the province's salmon streams, and two-thirds of its human population. Mighty River follows the Fraser from its source down to the Pacific, recounting many of the human and natural histories that intertwine on its ...

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Passages of a Stream: A Chronicle of the Meramec more books like this

by James P. Jackson

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Courting the Diamond Sow: Kayaking Tibet's Forbidden Tsangpo River more books like this

by Wickliffe W Walker

Called the Everest of the whitewater world, the Tsangpo River in Tibet has yet to be explored and charted. In 1998, four men, including renowned chemist Doug Gordon, attempted to be the first to navigate a remote 140-mile stretch of the river. But when Gordon was lost to the lethal strength of the river's current, the expedition was terminated. ...

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Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat more books like this

by Mary Helen Dohan

For ages 10+. Exciting story of the first steamboat trip down the Mississippi. In 18111, the New Orleans set out on its maiden voyage down the Mississippi. On board were Nicholas Roosevelt; his pregnant wife Lydia; and their young daughter. Together they faced navigational perils, hostile indians, a shipboard fire, childbirth, and even an ...

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Raging rivers more books like this

by Anita Ganeri, Mike Phillips

Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons. This book takes us on a turbulent river tour from ice cap to ocean, read the secret dairy of a brave river explorer and get to know your watery wildlife with the spotter's guide.

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