Rivertime : ecotravel on the world's rivers / Mary A. Hood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hood, Mary A., 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rivers.

Natural history.

Hood, Mary A., 1944---Travel.

Hood, Mary A.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 276 p., [16] p. of plates ) col. ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this engaging travelogue of our world's rivers, great and small, poet and biologist Mary A. Hood reflects on rivers as creators of place. Recounting her journeys along portions of the Mississippi, the Danube, the Amazon, the Yangtze, the Ganges, the Nile, and a dozen small U.S. rivers, Hood weaves together natural history, current environmental and conservation issues, encounters with endangered plants and animals, and tells some interesting tales along the way.Like a river, the book begins small, with essays that are narrowly focused on themes of environment and place, such as the need to write our world (Three Rivers), how fires (and corporations) control the West (the Flathead), the effect of wind farms on a small town in western New York (the Conhocton), the giant redwoods and how they were preserved (the Klamath), and the search for moose in the great north woods (the Penobscot). The second section expands the themes of environment and place and looks at great world rivers, their long histories, their biological diversity, the effects of human use and tourism, and the paradox of human reverence and destruction. From endangered species to invasive species, from corporate control of national parks to wind farms, from urban sprawl to efforts at conservation and restoration, RiverTime offers insights into our relationship to the environment in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Small United States Rivers

Three Rivers: Writing Our World

Apalachicola and Other Rivers of Three Corners: Fossil Rivers

Willamette River: Mousing the Owl

Flathead River: Fires in the West

Tensaw River: Longleaf Magnolias

Cumberland River: Magnolias and Other Rare Plants of the Appalachians

Conhocton River: A New York State of Mind

Penobscot River: In Search of Moose

Klamath River: Forest Monoliths

Ellijay River: Applesauce

Alligator River: Tidewater Wolves and Swans

Yellow River: Conservation, Preservation, and Restoration

The Amazon

Introduction to the Amazon

Cities of the Amazon

Amazon Water Lilies

Birds and Bats of the Amazon

Pacaya Samiria National Preserve of the Amazon

Amazon Canopy Walkway

Insects of the Amazon

Trees of the Amazon

Other Great World Rivers

Mississippi River: The Atchafalaya Basin

Danube River: The Tizsa and the Hortobagy

Yangtze River: River of Change

Ganges River: One Lone Ibisbill and a Half-Billion People

Nile River: Tombs, Temples, and Tourists

Conclusion

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791478561

0791478564

9781435641228

1435641221