The Gift of Rivers
Subtitle: True Stories of Life on the Water (Travelers' Tales Guides)
Contributors: Pamela Michael (Editor); Robert Hass (Introduction)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: April 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781885211422
Subjects: Travel writing; Travel - General; Fishing - General; Boating And Sailing; White Water Canoeing And Kayaking; Nature; Travel; Rivers; Kayaking; Essays; Essays & Travelogues; Nature / Rivers; Aquatic sports; Voyages and travels; Anecdotes
First sentence: This is a book of river stories, a wonderful book of river stories, and that would be enough to say by way of introduction, if it were not so interesting to think about rivers, and so urgent to think about them at this moment in the history of the human relation on earth.