Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. DELUXE EDITION-BRAND NEW-UNREAD COPY--READING RIBBON- SHRINK WRAP REMOVED TO VIEW CONTENTS-Burgundy leatherette boards with gold title and pictorial image on front-" EXPLORING AMERICA'S WILD & SCENIC RIVERS Ours is a vast and well-watered nation, blessed with more than three and a half million miles of rivers and streams. They are the lifeblood of the land and carry a bright flow of beauty, joy, and adventure straight to the human heart. We have tamed most of our rivers - or we think we have - and put them to work nourishing our crops and lighting our cities. We have dammed them, diverted them, pollute them - but here and there runs a river still at least partly unchecked and free. Alaska's great Noatak is one; the Rio Grande of the Southwest another; and New England's Concord River yet a third - and in this wonderful book Douglas Chadwick takes us down all three of these rivers as well as many others. Scores of breathtaking photographs plunge us into white-water rapids or float us lazily past a gemlike blossom in a green bank of ferns. We get up close and personal with a pair of grizzlies in Alaska, camp on a Mexican mesa looking back into Texas, and paddle under the "rude bridge" in Massachusetts where the American Revolution began. The lively and eloquent text explores the history, the ecology, the environmental outlook, and - above all - the sheer beauty and exhilaration of these priceless resources. In the process, we learn about the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, designed three decades ago to protect and rehabilitate precious watercourses, which now safeguards sections of some 200 rivers all over America. ". Seller Inventory # 018322

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Exploring America's Wild & Scenic Rivers

Chadwick, David

Published by National Geographic Society, Washington, DC (2001)

ISBN 10: 0792278801 ISBN 13: 9780792278801

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