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Author: Richard Flanagan
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780802138637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a river guide is trapped under a rapid and begins to drown, the entirety of his life in Tasmania--flora and fauna--sings him home. Aljaz arrives at a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking and he is beset with visions both horrible and fabulous.
Author: Richard Flanagan
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0802191983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Death of a River Guide makes good on a truly soaring ambition and flirts with literary greatness. . . . An indelible vision of how surely the history of a land plays its part in shaping the interior landscape of the human beings who occupy it.” —The Chicago Tribune With Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan gives us an extraordinary novel as sprawling and compelling as the land and people it describes. Beneath a waterfall on a remote Tasmanian river, Aljaz Cosini is drowning. Beset by visions, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. He sees his father, Harry, burying his own father, Boy. He sees Boy himself as a young man, and his Auntie Ellie, chased by a cow she believes is a Werowa spirit. In the waters that rush over him Aljaz finds a world where his story connects to family stories that are Aboriginal, Celtic, Italian, English, Chinese, and East European—what he ultimately discovers in the flood of the past is the soul history of his country.
Author: John Wilson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2009-10
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1554691117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young soldier survives a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War.
Author: Joe Cook
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 082034463X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom its headwaters on the southern slope of the Tennessee Valley divide near Dahlonega to its confluence with the Oostanaula to form the Coosa in Rome, the Etowah is a river full of interesting surprises. Paddle over Native American fish weirs and past the Etowah Indian Mounds, one of the most intact Mississippian Culture sites in the Southeast. See the quarter-mile tunnel created to divert the Etowah during Georgia’s gold rush and the pilings from antebellum bridges burned in the Civil War. This guide offers all the information needed for even novice paddlers to feel comfortable jumping in a boat and heading downstream, including detailed, accurate maps; put in/take out and optimal river flow information; mile-by-mile points of interest; and an illustrated natural history guide to help identify animals and plants commonly seen in and around the river. A fishing primer offers tips to understand the habits of some of the many native fish species found in the Etowah, from trout in the river’s upper reaches to bass and bream in the midsection and catfish and drum below Lake Allatoona. Along the way, river explorers will come to understand the threats facing this unique Georgia place, and the guide offers suggestions for how to take action to help protect the Etowah and keep its beauty and biodiversity safe for future explorers. A Wormsloe Foundation nature book.
Author: Victor Mallet
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0198786174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. Victor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost.
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Published: 1997*
Total Pages: 9
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Blaine Harden
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1997-11-04
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780393316902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetails the destruction of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest by well-intentioned Americans who saw only the benefits of the dam-building, power plant and irrigation projects, not realizing the longterm effects of killing the river.
Author: Lynne Strahan
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 22
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Todd Balf
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780609606254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA chronicle of a kayak team's quest to make the first descent through the dangerous Tsangpo Gorge describes how the four expert members of the team took on an adventure that ended in tragedy.
Author: Peter Heller
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2021-08-24
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0525657762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests. “Peter Heller is the poet laureate of the literary thriller." —Michael Koryta, New York Times best-selling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet, is known by locals as "Billionaire's Mile" and is locked behind a heavy gate. Sandwiched between barbed wire and a meadow with a sign that reads "Don't Get Shot!" the resort boasts boutique fishing at its finest. Safe from viruses that have plagued America for years, Kingfisher offers a respite for wealthy clients. Now it also promises a second chance for Jack, a return to normalcy after a young life filled with loss. When he is assigned to guide a well-known singer, his only job is to rig her line, carry her gear, and steer her to the best trout he can find. But then a human scream pierces the night, and Jack soon realizes that this idyllic fishing lodge may be merely a cover for a far more sinister operation. A novel as gripping as it is lyrical, as frightening as it is moving, The Guide is another masterpiece from Peter Heller.
