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Downstream toward home : a book of rivers / Oliver A. Houck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houck, Oliver A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houck, Oliver A.
- Rivers--United States.
- Rivers.
- Environmental conditions.
- Canoes and canoeing.
- Travel.
- United States.
- Rivers--Northwest Territories.
- Northwest Territories.
- Houck, Oliver A--Travel--United States.
- Houck, Oliver A--Travel--Northwest Territories.
- United States--Description and travel.
- Northwest Territories--Description and travel.
- Canoes and canoeing--United States.
- Canoes and canoeing--Northwest Territories.
- United States--Environmental conditions.
- Northwest Territories--Environmental conditions.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 239 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Prelude
- Part I. Explorations, 1954-1981
- Egypt's Creek (New Jersey, 1954)
- Charles River (Massachusetts, 1957)
- Greenbrier River (West Virginia, 1970)
- Shenandoah River (Virginia, 1970)
- Juniper Springs (Florida, 1972)
- Big Sur River (California, 1973)
- Shuttles (West Virginia and Mississippi, 1970-1990)
- Great Falls of the Potomac (Maryland, 1974)
- Deerfield River (Vermont, 1974)
- Rock Creek (District of Columbia, 1975)
- Barren Grounds (Northwest Territories, 1976)
- Cache La Poudre (Colorado, 1977)
- Chesapeake & Ohio Canal (Maryland, 1978)
- Verde River (Arizona, 1978)
- Blackwater River (West Virginia, 1979)
- Saint John River (Maine, 1981)
- Interlude
- Part II. South toward home, 1981-2013
- Atchafalaya River (Louisiana, 1982)
- Shell Bank Bayou (Louisiana, 1985)
- Rio Grande (Texas, 1986)
- Buffalo River (Arkansas, 1987)
- Horn Island (Mississippi, 1988)
- Horton River (Northwest Territories, 1993)
- Pearl River (Louisiana, 1993)
- Green River (Utah, 1994)
- Gila River (New Mexico, 1997)
- Bayou Sauvage (Louisiana, 2005)
- Deschutes River (Oregon, 2006)
- Old River (Mississippi, 2006)
- Red Creek (Mississippi, 2009)
- Bayou Sorrel (Louisiana, 2010)
- Grande Ronde (Oregon and Washington, 2013)
- Wolf River (Mississippi, 2013)
- Postlude.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780807157459
- 0807157457
- OCLC:
- 880499837
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