RiverTime by Mary A Hood
Like a river, the book begins small, with essays that are narrowly focused on themes of environment and place, such as the need to write our world (Three Rivers), how fires (and corporations) control the West (the Flathead), the effect of wind farms on a small town in western New York (the Conhocton), the giant redwoods and how they were preserved (the Klamath), and the search for moose in the great north woods (the Penobscot). The second section expands the themes of environment and place and looks at great world rivers, their long histories, their biological diversity, the effects of human use and tourism, and the paradox of human reverence and destruction. From endangered species to invasive species, from corporate control of national parks to wind farms, from urban sprawl to efforts at conservation and restoration, RiverTime offers insights into our relationship to the environment in the twenty-first century."…this earnest eco-travelogue … is … plush with tidbits about these waterways' natural history" — ForeWord Magazine
"…[a] profound and pensive collection of essays…" — Booklist
"Part ecotravel journal, part natural history, part plea for the assaulted rivers, RiverTime carries us around the world. There is beauty here, and fascination, and a desperate sense of last chances." — Kathleen Dean Moore, author of The Pine Island Paradox and coeditor of Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge
"If you want to fall in love with a river, read this book." — Tom Skerritt, American Rivers
"The author's range of knowledge, her thorough research, and her ability to address the importance of rivers to human and nonhuman life is impressive. She is an environmentalist, a scientist, and a scholar who attends to detail while also writing a fascinating and engaging personal account." — Sue Walker, coauthor of In the Realm of Rivers: Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw Delta
Mary A. Hood is Professor Emerita of Biology at the University of West Florida. She is the author of The Strangler Fig and Other Tales: Field Notes of a Conservationist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791473900 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791473902 |
| Title | RiverTime |
| Author | Mary A Hood |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2008-03-20 |
| Number of pages | 302 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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