Big Rivers
Author | : Charles Ryder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Readers (Primary) |
ISBN | : 9780545666565 |
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"What do you know about big rivers?" --Page [4] of cover.
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Author | : Charles Ryder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Readers (Primary) |
ISBN | : 9780545666565 |
"What do you know about big rivers?" --Page [4] of cover.
Author | : Watercourse (Organization) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 200? |
Genre | : Environmental education |
ISBN | : |
"Readers explore big rivers and watersheds in North America, meet famous river explorers, calculate a river's rate of flow, discover how the river environment is unique, investigate the many ways that rivers are important, and recognize the role of water managers"--Publisher's website.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Atheneum Books |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Describes the conditions that led up to the severe flooding in the Mississippi River Valley in 1993.
Author | : Richard E. Messer |
Publisher | : Genoa House |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-02-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 192697512X |
Canoeing from the source of the Missouri River high in the mountains of the Continental Divide down the rapids and over the dams of the upper Missouri to its confluence with the Mississippi and on down its broad waters to New Orleans, 3,800 miles, two young men undertake a voyage of adventure that every young person talks about, but few take. Travel with them in a time before cell phones and GPS as they are initiated into the age old perils of nature and explore the historic river towns along their route. Experience through vivid, first person story telling, the physical and emotional challenges they meet and overcome in their encounters on this pioneering journey down the two greatest rivers of America. This exciting narrative provides not only a pristine view of the beauties of these rivers as they were fifty years ago, but also dramatizes the damage we have done in contaminating, straightening, and commercializing our once bounteous water resources. Share this dream of inspiring adventure and experience the pioneering spirit that still lives in every young heart.
Author | : Illinois. Dept. of Natural Resources. Office of Scientific Research and Analysis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Illinois River Watershed |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1998-06-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780934007375 |
Big Rivers is an across-the-curriculum experience, involving math, science, language arts, geography, and music skills, that will thrill teacher and student alike.
Author | : Bobbi Miller |
Publisher | : Holiday House |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2013-10-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0823427692 |
Raised by her pirate father on a Mississippi keeler, River is a half-feral river rat and proud of it. When her powerful father disappears in the great earthquake of 1811, she is on the run from buccaneers, including Jean Lafitte, who hope to claim her father's territory and his buried treasure. But the ruthless rivals do not count on getting a run for their money from a plucky slip of a girl determined to find her place in the new order. Filled with down-home humor, raucous hijinks, and one-of-a-kind characters, this historical novel captures the Mississippi River at a time when its denizens were as untamed as its waters.
Author | : Illinois. Dept. of Natural Resources. Office of Scientific Research and Analysis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Illinois River Watershed (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Avijit Gupta |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2008-02-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780470723715 |
Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management explores an important topic in geomorphology and sedimentology: the form and function of major rivers. Our knowledge of the big rivers of the world is limited. It is currently difficult to recognise large rivers of the past from relict sedimentary deposits or to structure management policies for long international rivers. This exciting book brings together a set of papers on large rivers of the world, as a unique introduction to a demanding subject. The book includes thirty chapters and is organised into three sections. The first part is on the environmental requirements for creating and maintaining a major river system. The second is a collection of case studies on 14 large rivers from different continents, covering a range of physical environments. The third section includes chapters on the measurement and management of large rivers. First book to offer in a single volume state-of-the-art knowledge on management and geomorphology of large rivers of the world A pioneering study, pushing the boundaries of our knowledge related to big rivers Includes comprehensive case studies covering the major large rivers of the world including Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, Congo, Indus, and Mekong Written by a leading team of distinguished, international contributors Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management is essential reading for postgraduate students and researchers in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, sedimentary geology, and river management. It is also of relevance to engineers and environmental consultants in the private and public sectors working on major rivers of the world.
Author | : Michael Farris Smith |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2013-09-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1451699441 |
For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, “a wonderfully cinematic story” (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region. It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land. The Gulf Coast has been brought to its knees. Years of catastrophic hurricanes have so punished and depleted the region that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules—including Cohen, whose wife and unborn child were killed during an evacuation attempt. He buried them on family land and never left. But after he is ambushed and his home is ransacked, Cohen is forced to flee. On the road north, he is captured by Aggie, a fanatical, snake-handling preacher who has a colony of captives and dangerous visions of repopulating the barren region. Now Cohen is faced with a decision: continue to the Line alone, or try to shepherd the madman’s prisoners across the unforgiving land with the biggest hurricane yet bearing down—and Cohen harboring a secret that poses the greatest threat of all. Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a Southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.“This is the kind of book that lifts you up with its mesmerizing language then pulls you under like a riptide” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).