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Rivers of the World: A Social, Geographical, and Environmental Sourcebook

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I just love it when I get a thought in my head that seems totally irrelevent to what I am doing at the time. I am walking around a grocery store thinking about buying some food for dinner when "rivers" pop into my head.
After the store I go on down to the library and check out this wonderful book on, "Rivers of the World." It is totally awesome and I learned magnificant information about where mountaintop headwaters flush themselves into distant deltas, rivers run theier courses shaping the commercial, geographical, and cultural character of nations. This book is vividly written and meticulously researched (I love when an author gives it their all in research) It is a rich and thorough treatment of nearly 200 of the world's rivers. In this book you will find rivers both tranquil and turbulent, renowned and obscure-but each remarkable or historically significant in its own right.
In addition to treating the historical and often literary significance of each river, entries address environmental issues and threats to our planet's waterways, floods, pollution, river management,and dam construction and destruction.
Each entry is prefaced with basic facts, including river source, outlet, major tributaries, and length, and concludes with suggestions for further reading. LOVED IT!!