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Rivers Run Through Us - by Eric B Taylor (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- An engaging, informative, and personal exploration of some of the great rivers of North America.
- About the Author: Mark Angelo is a river conservationist, writer, speaker, teacher, and paddler.
- 464 Pages
- Nature, Ecosystems & Habitats
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About the Book
An engaging, informative, and personal exploration of some of the great rivers of North America.
Book Synopsis
An 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 in the prosecution of major conflicts (US Civil War), patterns of development and social change (dams on the Columbia River), the economy (gold rushes, agricultural development), or international relations (US and Mexico and the Colorado River). The centrality of human-river interactions has had great impacts on the biodiversity of rivers (salmon and other threatened species) that have been the focus of historical and current intense conflicts of values (e.g., water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin system and California "water wars" in general).
Of the thousands of rivers in North America, 10 are profiled in Rivers Run Through Us:
- Mackenzie River
- Yukon River
- Fraser River
- Columbia River
- Sacramento-San Joaquin River
- Colorado River
- Rio Grande/Rio Bravo River
- Mississippi River
- Hudson River
- St. Lawrence River
In this engaging new work, Eric Taylor takes readers on a grand tour of 10 of North America's more important river systems, exploring one fundamental issue for each that illustrates the critical role each particular stream has had -- and will have -- in the human development of North America.
Review Quotes
Praise for Rivers Run Through Us:
"An inspired and thoughtfully informed guided raft ride down the great rivers of North America."
--Robert W. Sandford, EPCOR Chair for Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health and author of The Columbia Icefield, Our Vanishing Glaciers, The Anthropocene Disruption, Rain Comin' Down: Water, Memory and Identity in a Changed World and numerous other titles
"Blending expert science, cultural history, and no small measure of valuable insights, Eric Taylor's Rivers Run Through Us layers the geological history of watersheds with an account of short-sighted industrial development and its ecological consequences. His survey of a pattern of use and abuse common since the 19th century provides an intelligent and necessary foundation. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in how we have bent rivers to our will and transported ourselves to an era of water shortages, habitat loss, and species extinctions."
--Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, author of A River Captured: The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change
"My new favorite book about rivers. Eric Taylor's grand tour of major North American basins is socially and geographically perceptive."
--Laurence C. Smith, author of Rivers of Power and The World in 2050
About the Author
Mark Angelo is a river conservationist, writer, speaker, teacher, and paddler. He is the founder and chair of both B.C. and World Rivers Day and is rivers chair of the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC, as well as a Fellow of the New York-based Explorers Club and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He lives in Burnaby, British Columbia.