1,440円 "A commanding and inspiring biography of a river that gave rise to an art movement, progressive social quests, [and] landmark environmental cases." ー Booklist (starred review) Includes maps, photos, and illustrations Frances F. Dunwell presents a rich portrait of the Hudson and of the visionary ...

1,760円 "Gives the reader a sense of lost New York, of the incredibly rich and biologically diverse ecosystem that once was the lower Hudson River estuary." ーTed Steinberg, author of Gotham Unbound Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor's environmental history. Once a pristi...

1,760円 "T he charisma of these huge, Amazonian ' river people ' burns through even the most factual descriptions, emphasi z ed by an abundance of photographs. " ー BBC Wildlife The aptly named giant otter is exceptionally well adapted to life in rivers, lakes and wetlands in tropical South America. Kn...

1,760円 A "remarkable" history of the great river of Southeast Asia ( Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain). The Mekong River runs over nearly three thousand miles, beginning in the mountains of Tibet and flowing through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam before emptying into...

1,440円 "A fine, fascinating book. John S. Sledge introduces us to four centuries worth of heroes and rogues on one incredible American river." ーWinston Groom, New York Times–bestselling author of Forrest Gump The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercou...

1,760円 "[Harvey] may have created a new literary genre: science travel writing . . . travelogue, autobiography, history, and even fantasy romp alongside the biology" ( Quill & Quire). When biologist Brian Harvey saw a thousand fish blundering into a Brazilian dam, he asked the obvious: What's going to h...

860円 September 1979. When thirty-something Peter Rowlands loaded up his Landcruiser and took canoe Dimples to join his friend Hal Marsden on a paddling adventure in northern BC’s backcountry, he never expected one riverーStikineーwould radically change the course of his life. Rowlands became so enchan...

2,382円 At a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers "both a love song and a paean of regret to America's most spectacular river" (Denver Post) and "a plea to save [it] before it’s too late" (The Wall Street Journal). From bestselling author, long...

2,479円 "We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us." ーfrom The River You Touch When Chris Do...

880円 Telford's plan, to connect Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy with each other and the sea, was a huge undertaking which brought civil engineering to the Highlands on a heroic scale. Deep in the Highlands, far from the canal network of England, engineers forged their way through the Great Glen to...

703円 "We know of no better account, from the inside, of steamboating." -American Historical Review, 1909 "It is impossible to read of such devil-may-care steamboating without a regret that there is none of it to be had these days."-New York Times Book Review, 1969 "A well proportioned well written and...

750円 ¡Descubre un mundo de aprendizaje y diversión con "Aventuras Geográficas: Explorando Nuestro Mundo"! Únete a Martina, Luis y Sofía en un emocionante viaje a través de la Isla del Mapa Misterioso, donde la geografía cobra vida de la mano de Mapito, un mapa mágico con ojos chispeantes. En este libr...