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The updated edition of a bestselling classic, with a new introduction from award-winning author Chris Hammer. Australia's major river system is collapsing. Parts of it are dying; parts of it are already dead. Australia's most significant river no longer reaches the sea. I look out into the dim autumn light and wonder once again how it has come to this . . . Join award-winning author Chris Hammer on a journey through Australia's largest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin.

Brought to you by Penguin. From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings...

Tra John Augustus Sutter e la fortuna è amore a prima vista. Alvarado, il governatore del Messico, gli concede il permesso di colonizzare la zona orientale della California. John Augustus Sutter fonda così la Colonia de Nueva Helvetia. E nel 1843, dopo aver costruito Fort Sutter a tre miglia dal fiume Sacramento e a meno di uno dall'American River, diventerà Alcalde della regione, che in quell'anno, il 1845, fa ancora parte del Messico.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy—from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic ABEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST GOODREADS "A lean...

River of Lakes weaves together the biological, cultural, anthropological, archaeological, and ecological aspects of the St. Johns, capturing the essence of its remarkable history and intrinsic value as a natural wonder.

Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

It was late spring in 1976 and America was in turmoil, a nation divided. Two young men and their puppy decided to immerse themselves in nature by traveling by canoe from upstate New York to New Orleans. They lived along the river shores following the Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers...

A wondrous journey along the greatest ocean current—classic travel writing and celebrations of natural wonders under threat Our world is a freak of nature. The finely balanced arrangement of ice at the poles and heat in the tropics is a once in a billion-year miracle of physics—made and...

Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered. It is the annual flood pulse—the brief time when the river occupies the floodplain—that gives a river its vitality, but it is human engineering that kills it, suppressing the flood pulse with dams, irrigation, siltation, dikes, and levees.

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the Best Nonfiction Audiobook at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020. A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday...

Crossing the wild water was crazy, I knew, but I had a desperate need to bag the buck.

A riveting journey down Theodore Roosevelt's "river of doubt" with a diverse crew of adventurers, scientists, and Indigenous leaders who shine light on the past, present, and future of a natural wonder. Sam Moses took part in the adventure of a lifetime when he, along with seventeen men and two...

This book is for anyone who fishes, anyone who wants to fish, and the millions worldwide who watched RIVER MONSTERS. 'The greatest angling explorer of his generation' Independent on Sunday Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all...

In 2001, journalist Jessica DuLong ditched her dot-com desk job for the diesel engines of a rusty antique fireboat, the John J. Harvey, and the storied waters of the Hudson. My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson tells the story of this mechanic's daughter and Stanford graduate...

A River Is Made is a true story of a life carried across borders, wars, and generations, told through the eyes of its author, Fazal Moneer Adil. From Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the UAE to the United States, it traces the journey of an Afghan refugee from war to belonging in America.

River Magic: Tales from a Life on 1000 Rivers takes the listener on an amazing global adventure by river. Mark Angelo, one of the world's most acclaimed paddlers and river conservationists, who has paddled more rivers than perhaps anyone on Earth, recounts a selection of his encounters with amazing animals, big fish, unique cultures, and wild rivers.

A meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author’s experiences as an activist. In short, aphoristic chapters, Marquis explores the power of force and collectivity through the metaphor of water. As an activist, David Marquis founded the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve in Dallas, and has consulted with the Texas Conservation Alliance since 2011. He brings an unerring belief in the connective and healing power of nature to The River Always Wins.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Hill Times Top 100 Best Book of 2025 From the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding "yes" to the question of its title. At the heart of Is a River Alive? is a single...

The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new Afterword by the author. Since its publication in 1983, The River Why has become a classic. David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love, nature, and the quest for self-discovery, written in a...

The Odell Buckenflush Chronicles is a collection of river tales from a career in outdoor education, blending experiential learning and humor to address environmental impacts and the consequences of our actions. Each tale offers lessons for those venturing outdoors via waterways, serving as both educational tools and entertainment for outdoor leaders, teachers, and resource managers.