The Gift of Rivers - Full description

This collection follows in the grand tradition of great river literature by exploring the relationships between people and rivers through a wide range of stories, including: a first descent of China Lancang River; the discovery of a stone goddess in a grotto on the Colorado River; a day-long attempt to land a salmon on a lightweight fly rod; a communion between father and son over the proper way to divert the river so the father can be buried beneath it when he dies; a baptism into the ways of nature and religion; a search for the source of the Seine in the hills of Burgundy.

Your river guides are: Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Simon Winchester, Jan Morris, John Krich, David James Duncan, Wendell Berry, and many more.

A thoughtful introduction by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass describes the way in which rivers have fueled the imagination and spawned cultures since the beginning of time.

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