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Downstream Toward Home : A Book of Rivers /
Rivers have played a remarkable role throughout our national history. The outcome of battles, the fate of pioneers, and the survival of early settlers were inextricable from the course and temperament of surrounding rivers. Depicted in songs, art, and fiction, these waterways found a place in the Am...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2014.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.