2,652円 In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee. Their journey into the wilderness led to the founding of a settlement now known as Nashvilleーover one th...

5,400円 Desde el Amazonas y el Mekong hasta el Ebro y el Misisipi, los ríos de la Tierra esculpen paisajes antes de desembocar en los mares del mundo a través de deltas y estuarios. Su inexorable flujo transporta sedimentos y es el sustento de toda suerte de ecosistemas y comunidades. Más que ningún otr...

0円 Les ripisylves et les forêts alluviales correspondent à la végétation arborescente qui se développe au bord des fleuves et des rivières. Avec le changement climatique, l’urbanisation croissante, l’agriculture intensive, les espèces exotiques envahissantes, l’endiguement et la chenalisation des co...

3,973円 How environmental forces, and human responses to them, profoundly shaped both Native American and colonial life along the Potomac River. James D. Rice’s fresh study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and h...

1,300円 Un recurso vital que sostiene la vida Explora cómo un elemento esencial conecta culturas, ecosistemas y futuros posibles. Descubre la verdad detrás de la crisis hídrica global y por qué la gestión sostenible del agua es una urgencia inaplazable. Comprende cómo el cuidado de los ecosistemas y la c...

1,100円 Descubre Paraná de Omar Morgante: un viaje poético a la memoria del río Paraná es el nuevo poemario del poeta argentino Omar Morgante, una obra que invita a sumergirse en la profundidad simbólica del río como territorio emocional, geográfico y espiritual. Publicado en 2024, confirma la madurez cr...

10,280円 This book provides a comprehensive overview of the influence that the papyrus plant has had on African wetlands (with a particular focus on the Nile) in the past, and how this may change with the oncoming threats of climate change. The papyrus plant is one of the fastest growing in the world and ...

4,642円 Anglers knee-deep in Alberta's mountain streams after the First World War understood that there was something wrong. Coal mining, forestry, and irrigation were industrializing landscapes. Roads and railways brought unprecedented numbers of people to remote fishing grounds. Once home to abundant r...

1,760円 Flowing through a valley of sublime scenery, the Hudson River uniquely connects America's past with its present and future. This book traces the course of the river through four centuries, recounting the stories of explorers and traders, artists and writers, entrepreneurs and industrialists, ecol...

2,320円 A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta ...

3,560円 Bogs form from an overabundance of death, organic matter breaking down to form layer upon layer of peat. That peat gives rise to lifeforms that challenge our understanding of biology itself: amphibian-eating plants and acid-flinging mosses, plant clones that span thousands of square miles and sub...

3,045円 When the Bosque Ran Clear: Life Along the River from Prehistory to the Civil War presents a history of early people and their environments along the Bosque River valley in North Central Texas. Spanning from the Pleistocene, thousands of years ago when the earliest peoples arrived in the cool and ...