Land of Rivers : America in Word and Image / Peter C. Mancall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoagland, Edward.

Mancall, Peter C., editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 60 halftones

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Rivers run deeply through the American consciousness. American Indians speculated about their origins in myths and legends. Settlers and adventurers exulted in their promise. Poets, artists, and songwriters paid tribute to their beauty. Engineers exploited their potential, and conservationists pleaded for their protection. The diversity of waterways, the range of their idiosyncracies, and the variety of responses they have inspired evoke the richness and complexity of the North American continent. For everyone who has listened to a river's song or floated along its surface or played on its banks, here is a book of images and voices which does justice to the beauty and diversity of rivers. The selections range from Samuel Sewell's mournful praise of the River Merrymak to John Wesley Powell's triumphant narrative on exploring the Colorado River, from Walt Whitman's ode on crossing Brooklyn Ferry to Oscar Hammerstein's melodic tribute to Ol'Man River. More than fifty descriptions, meditations, and songs, with brief introductory notes, are balanced by sixty illustrations, including the elegant landscape paintings of Albert Bierstadt, the landscapes of Frederic Church, and the haunting photographs of Ansel Adams.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction: River Cultures Of North America

The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

Excerpts From Indian Legends Of Tlie Pacific Northwest / Clark, Ella E.

Excerpt From Inducements To The Liking Of The Voyage Intended Towards Virginia In 40 And 42 Degrees Of Latitude / Hakluyt, Richard

Excerpt From Voyages Of Samuel De Champlain / Champlain, Samuel de

Excerpt From "Good News From Virginia" / Whitaker, Alexander

Excerpt From "Contemplations" / Bradstrect, Anne

French Explorers On The Mississippi

"Some Proposals For A Second Settlement In The Province Ofpennsylvania" / Penn, William

The Eighteenth Century

"Upon The Drying Up That Ancient River, The River Merrymak" / Sewall, Samuel

Correspondence Of Benjamin Franklin And Mary Stevenson

Excerpt From Travels In North America / Kalm, Peter

Excerpt From Notes On The State Of Virginia / Jefferson, Thomas

Excerpt From Travels / Bartram, William

"On Jordan's Stormy Banks" / Stennett, Samuel

Excerpt From A View Of The United States Of America / Coxe, Tench

The Nineteenth Century

Excerpt From Original Journals Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition / Clark, William / Lewis, Meriwether

"Morning On The Wissahiccon" / Poe, Edgar Allan

Excerpt From Delineations Of American Scenery And Character / Audubon, John James

"My Visit To Niagara" / Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Excerpt From A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers / Thoreau, Henry David

Excerpt From A Pioneer's Search For An Ideal Home / Judson, Phoebe Goodell

"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" / Whitman, Walt

Excerpt From The Company Of Adventurers / Cowie, Isaac

Excerpt From The Exploration Of The Colorado River / Powell, John Wesley

Excerpts From Life On The Mississippi [1883] And The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn / Twain, Mark

Excerpt From History Of The Johnstown Flood / Johnson, Willis Fletcher

Excerpt From The Conquest Of Arid America / Smythe, William E.

The Twentieth Century

Excerpt From The River And I / Neihardt, John G.

The Owens Valley-Los Angeles Controversy

"The Negro Speaks Of Rivers" / Hughes, Langston

"Of Man River" / Hammerstcin, Oscar

"West-Running Brook" / Frost, Robert

Excerpt From The Land Of Feast And Famine / Instad, Helge

"Flat River Girl"

Excerpt From TVA: Democracy On The March / Lilienthal, David E.

Excerpt From A Pima Remembers / Webb, George

Excerpt From Goodbye To A River / Graves, John

Excerpt From Silent Spring / Carson, Rachel

"Roll On, Columbia" / Guthrie, Woody

Excerpt From Desert Solitaire / Abbey, Edward

Excerpt From The Wild And Scenic Rivers Act

Excerpt From The Sound Of Mountain Water / Stegner, Wallace

"Burn On" / Newman, Randy

Excerpt From Pilgrim At Tinker Creek / Dillard, Annie

Excerpts From Run, River, Run / Zwmger, Ann

Excerpts From A River Runs Through It / Maclean, Norman

Excerpt From River Notes: The Dance Of Herons / Lopez, Barry

Excerpt From Blue Highways / Heat Moon, William Least

Excerpt From Rivers Of Empire: Water, Aridity, And The Growth Of The American West / Worster, Donald

Excerpt From River Of Traps / deBuy, William

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ISBN:

1-5017-3877-1

OCLC:

1114892452