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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, Thomas Cooley

ISBN 0393966402 (0-393-96640-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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In addition to the entire text of what some consider the quintessential American novel, this comprehensive volume features materials that help place the novel in perspective with its time and place. "Contexts" includes essays on the composition of the novel, the people and history of the Upper Mississippi Valley, slavery, and the critical reception of the novel upon its publication. "Readings" includes Henry Nash Smith's introduction to the 1958 Riverside Edition of the novel, as well as critical essays. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Barry Moser, Mark Twain

ISBN 0520053389 (0-520-05338-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517415100 (0-517-41510-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Sculley Bradley, Mark Twain, E. Hudson Long, Thomas Cooley, Richmond Croom Beatty

ISBN 0393044548 (0-393-04454-8)
Softcover, Norton

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
by Mark Twain, E.W. Kemble

ISBN 0394605217 (0-394-60521-7)
Hardcover, Modern Library

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Raggedy Ann
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517142171 (0-517-14217-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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LET YOUR CHILD GO ON AN ADVENTURE WITH RAGGEDY ANN AS SHE MEETS UP WITH DIFFERENT CHARACTERS THROUGHOUT THE BOOK. THIS IS A CLASSIC BOOK! [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, James Dickey

ISBN 0451522729 (0-451-52272-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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All Along the River
by Allan Fowler

ISBN 0516460196 (0-516-46019-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub

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Along the Huron: The Natural Communities of the Huron River Corridor in Ann Arbor, Michigan

ISBN 0472086510 (0-472-08651-0)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr

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Amsterdam
by Geert Mak, Philipp Blom

ISBN 0674003314 (0-674-00331-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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Cosmopolitan, stylish, even a little decadent, Amsterdam--"the Venice of the North"--is a city of legendary beauty. From a twelfth-century settlement of wooden huts at the mouth of the River Amstel, it had become by the late sixteenth century one of the great cultural capitals of Europe and a major financial center.
In this gracefully written examination of Amsterdam's soul--part history, part travel guide--the Dutch writer Geert Mak imaginatively depicts the lives of early Amsterdammers and traces the city's progress from a small town of merchants, sailors, farmers, and fishermen to a thriving metropolis. Mak's Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and magnificent monuments, but also of civil wars, uprisings, and bloody religious purges. In his delightfully instructive journey through the city and through time, Mak displays an eye for the bizarre and the unexpected: a Rembrandt sketch of a young girl executed for manslaughter; the shoe of a medieval lady unearthed during a remodeling project; a graffito foretelling the city's doom on the wall of a mansion, daubed by a deranged burgomaster with his own blood.
Amsterdam remains a magnet for travelers from around the world, and this charmingly detailed account of its origins and its history through the present day is designed to help the reader step into daily life in a truly modern city. [via]
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The Annotated Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn

ISBN 0393020398 (0-393-02039-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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- The Annotated Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0517530317 (0-517-53031-7)
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  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Big Muddy: Down the Mississippi Through America's Heartland
by B.C. Hall, C.T. Wood

ISBN 0452270103 (0-452-27010-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Big Sky
by A. B. Guthrie

ISBN 0618154639 (0-618-15463-9)
Softcover, Mariner Books

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A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction.

Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s epic adventure novels set in the American West. Here he introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers: traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers. The story centers on Caudill, a young Kentuckian driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of big, wild places. Caught up in the freedom and savagery of the wilderness, Caudill becomes an untamed mountain man, whom only the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief dares to love. [via]
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by Marc Reisner

ISBN 0670199273 (0-670-19927-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. This is the story of the early settlers, lured by promises of paradise. The author documents the rivalry between government giants and other institutions, in the competition to transform the West. [via]
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Down The River
by Edward Abbey

ISBN 0452265630 (0-452-26563-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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"Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon collapse." This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair.
Along the way, Abbey makes time for Thoreau while he takes a hard look at the MX missile system, slated for the American West. "For 23 years now I've been floating rivers. Always downstream, the easy and natural way. The way Huck Finn and Jim did it, LaSalle and Marquette, the mountain men, and Major Powell."
"Abbey's the original fly in the ointment. Give him money and prizes. Don't let anything happen to him." --Thomas McGuane [via]
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Enter Talking
by Joan Rivers, Richard Meryman

ISBN 0440122449 (0-440-12244-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Explorers of the Amazon
by Anthony Smith

ISBN 0670813109 (0-670-81310-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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At present, Anthony Smith is fitting up a home-made steamboat, in which he will spend the better part of the next two years investigating the Amazon, the "world's largest river and holder of the most superlatives". He concentrates in this, the first of two books, on the most illustrious of the Amazon's explorers, beginning with Cabral, the Portugese explorer credited with having discovered Brazil in 1500, and ending with the last major expedition 392 years later. In that time the world has changed dramatically (the time-span roughly parallels that between Styvesant's arrival in Manhattan and the present day) although the Amazon will appear almost the same to the modern adventurer as it seemed to the first men that set eyes, or sail, upon it. [via]
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Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
by Jeffrey Tayler

ISBN 0609808265 (0-609-80826-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Fortune Is a River : Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History
by Roger D. Masters

ISBN 0452280907 (0-452-28090-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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History is sometimes made by seemingly insignificant moments that turn out to have been pivotal in hindsight--and sometimes what didn't happen proves to be as important as what did. One such moment came in the Florentine court of Cesare Borgia, when a civil servant named Niccolò Machiavelli recruited a local engineer named Leonardo da Vinci to devise a plan to change the course of the Arno River. Diverting that river, Machiavelli reasoned, would deprive Florence's enemy, the nearby city-state of Pisa, of a dependable water supply. It would also make the Arno River navigable for oceangoing vessels from the inland city of Florence, and as an added incentive, would help limit damage caused by the flood-prone Arno to the surrounding farmlands.
Machiavelli and da Vinci devised a hydrological plan for the river that was extraordinarily promising, at least on paper. The flood-prone Arno, however, made the task an impossible challenge. The pair's chances of success were further reduced by poor design, bad timing, and undisciplined workers. Their failure brought official disfavor on Machiavelli and da Vinci alike. Leonardo transferred his studio to Milan and then Rome, where he would produce remarkable work, while Machiavelli retreated from public life for a time and used his forced leisure to write The Prince. Roger Masters crafts an epic tale out of a historical footnote. Although some of his conclusions are speculative in regards to Niccolò's and Leonardo's relationship, readers will likely find his narrative persuasive and deeply informed. [via]
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Goodbye to a River
by John Graves

ISBN 0394426908 (0-394-42690-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John Green

ISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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  Softcover, Random House Inc
- Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns
The Huron River: Voices from the Watershed
by Keith Taylor, John Ray Knott

ISBN 047206729X (0-472-06729-X)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr

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Impounded Rivers: Perspectives for Ecological Management
by Geoffrey E. Petts

ISBN 0471103063 (0-471-10306-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-LA
by Todd Balf

ISBN 060980801X (0-609-80801-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 0394561619 (0-394-56161-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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Nobel prize winner and author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez" tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece "Love in the Time of Cholera". "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love". Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives? "The most important writer of fiction in any language." Bill Clinton . "An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny." "Sunday Telegraph" . "An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women." "The Times" . As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include "Autumn of the Patriarch", "Bon Voyage Mr.President", "Collected Stories", "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", "The General in his Labyrinth", "Innocent Erendira and Other Stories", "In the Evil Hour", "Leaf Storm", "Living to Tell the Tale", "Memories of My Melancholy Whores", "News of a Kidnapping", "No-one Writes to the Colonel", "Of Love and Other Demons", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" and "Strange Pilgrims". [via]
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Lovers on the Nile: The Incredible African Journeys of Sam and Florence Baker
by Richard Seymour Hall

ISBN 0394502272 (0-394-50227-2)
Hardcover, Random House

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Madeline's Rescue
by Ludwig Bemelmans

ISBN 0670447161 (0-670-44716-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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It took Ludwig Bemelmans years to think of Madeline's next adventure after the 1939 original Madeline, but he did it, and the result was Madeline's Rescue, winner of the 1954 Caldecott Medal. One day on a walk through Paris (a "twelve little girls in two straight lines" kind of walk), Madeline slips and falls off a bridge right into the Seine. Everyone feared she would be dead, "But for a dog / That kept its head," saving her from a "watery grave." What choice do Madeline and the girls have but to take the heroic pooch home, feed her biscuits, milk, and beef, and name her Genevieve? Sadly, when Lord Cucuface gets wind of the new dog, he decrees that no dogs will be allowed in the "old house in Paris that was covered with vines," and kicks Genevieve out on the street. Madeline vows vengeance, and the girls scour Paris looking for the pup: "They went looking high / and low / And every place a dog might go. / In every place they called her name / But no one answered to the same." As we've come to expect from Bemelmans, all's well that ends well chez Clavel, and young readers will be tickled by this heartwarming, quirky dog story with a surprise finale. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Nile River
by Corinne J. Naden

ISBN 053100774X (0-531-00774-X)
Hardcover, Watts

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Original Adventures of Raggedy Ann
by Johnny Gruelle

ISBN 0517665816 (0-517-66581-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Adventures of the doll Raggedy Andy, including "The Rabbit Chase," "The New Tin Gutter," and "Doctor Raggedy Andy." [via]
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard

ISBN 0613376498 (0-613-37649-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, Annie Dillard shares her keen observations, poetic sensibilities, introspective reflections, and reverence for her surroundings to show us the world outside as we have never seen it before, in this winner of the 1975 Pulitizer Prize for nonfiction.. [via]
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Powell's Colorado River Expedition Coloring Book
by Peter Copeland

ISBN 0486275264 (0-486-27526-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon
by John Hildebrand

ISBN 0395424801 (0-395-42480-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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The Rio Grande:Life for the Desert: Life for the Desert
by Alexander L. Crosby

ISBN 0584638140 (0-584-63814-0)
Hardcover, Muller

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The River Congo: The Discovery, Exploration and Exploitation of the World's Most Dramatic River
by Peter Forbath

ISBN 0395567254 (0-395-56725-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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River Ecology
by Brian A. Whitton

ISBN 0520030168 (0-520-03016-8)
Hardcover, University of California Press

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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by CANDICE MILLARD

ISBN 0385507968 (0-385-50796-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelts harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

The River of Doubtit is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazils most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.

Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.
From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelts life, here is Candice Millards dazzling debut. [via]
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The River Scene: Ecology and Cultural Heritage
by S. M. Haslam, J. Purseglove, G. A. Wait

ISBN 0521574102 (0-521-57410-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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River Town
by Arthur Geisert, Bonnie Geisert

ISBN 0395908914 (0-395-90891-4)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine

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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, small towns sprouted up along the banks of America's rivers. Through a year of changing seasons the reader is transported to the days when people's livelihoods were directly connected to the river. The life of the townsfolk is shown to be an accumulation of events both large and small, from a joyous Halloween parade to the frozen river in winter to the threat of damaging springtime floods. Children and adults alike will pour over these pages of intricate etchings, noticing the changes and happenings of day-to-day, season-to-season life lived along a river. As they did in Prairie Town, the Geiserts have once again created a stunning tribute to small-town America as it once was and, to an extent, still remains today.
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Rivers of Empires : Water Aridity and the Growth of the American West
by Donald Worster

ISBN 0394751612 (0-394-75161-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative way, Thoreau was imitating the countless young pioneers, prospectors, and entrepreneurs who were zealously following Horace Greeley's famous advice to "go west." Yet while the epic chapter in American history opened by these adventurous men and women is filled with stories of frontier hardship, we rarely think of one of their greatest problems--the lack of water resources. And the same difficulty that made life so troublesome for early settlers remains one of the most pressing concerns in the western states of the late-twentieth century.

The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.

Rivers of Empire represents a radically new vision of the American West and its historical significance. Showing how ecological change is inextricably intertwined with social evolution, and reevaluating the old mythic and celebratory approach to the development of the West, Worster offers the most probing, critical analysis of the region to date. He shows how the vast region encompassing our western states, while founded essentially as colonies, have since become the true seat of the American "Empire." How this imperial West rose out of desert, how it altered the course of nature there, and what it has meant for Thoreau's (and our own) mythic search for freedom and the American Dream, are the central themes of this eloquent and thought-provoking story--a story that begins and ends with water. [via]
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Running the Amazon
by Joe Kane

ISBN 0394553314 (0-394-55331-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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In 1985 a team of hand-picked adventurers, including writer Joe Kane, embarked on a journey that would take them to the remote headwaters of the Amazon Basin. But that was just the beginning of the trip. Their goal: to navigate the world's longest river from source to mouth, a feat never before recorded.
After reaching (via a goat trail) a glacial trickle above 17,000 feet--debatably the farthest source of the Amazon--the team descends to a point where kayaks can be deployed. From there the trip entails kayaking through one of the nastiest white-water canyons on the planet, a stretch of water that has previously claimed the lives or quickly halted the plans of all who attempted to conquer it; navigating an unmapped gorge known affectionately as the Abyss; sneaking through the "Red Zone," an area closed to foreigners and occupied by the notorious Shining Path rebels; and, finally, paddling to the Atlantic by sea kayak through 3,000 miles of hot jungle.
Hired initially to chronicle the project from dry land, Kane quickly assumes a more integral role as a much-needed paddler, and as such he is able to provide vivid, first-hand descriptions of the treacherous water encountered. But in many ways the water is the least imposing obstacle to success. Along the way the team is beset by financial difficulties, a crisis of leadership, attacks from armed rebels, and the defection of team members. Kane's account of this six-month ordeal is much more than a travelogue of athletic endeavor--it's a fascinating portrait of the planning, politics, and personal struggles involved in mounting a modern-day expedition through a vast expanse of largely uncharted territory. [via]
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Splish Splash
by Joan Bransfield Graham, Steve Scott

ISBN 0618111239 (0-618-11123-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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As fresh and sparkling as a mountain stream, Splish Splash invites young readers to plunge into the pleasures of concrete poetry, to have fun with words and ideas, and to see and appreciate the shapes of language and of everyday things.

71 Top Books of the Century (Nonfiction), Instructor magazine A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A National Council of Teachers of English Notable Children's Book in the Langauge Arts A Children's Book of the Year, Child Study Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College New York Public Library "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing" Great Stone Face Book Award Nominee, New Hampshire A Kansas State Reading Circle Selection "Children's Books Mean Business," ABA-CBC Exhibit California Collection '97, '98, '99, and 2000
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Still Talking
by Joan Rivers, Richard Meryman

ISBN 0394579917 (0-394-57991-7)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited

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Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome Klapka Jerome

ISBN 0460001183 (0-460-00118-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. [via]
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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Jerome K. Jerome

ISBN 0486451100 (0-486-45110-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Jerome's comic masterpiece and one of the best-known classics of English humor follows the misadventures of 3 bungling, Victorian-era bachelors who take off on a rowing excursion up the Thames. Their disastrous struggles with camping equipment, meal preparation, and rampant hypochondria trumpet simple truths that still resonate today.
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Three Men in a Boat: (to Say Nothing of the Dog)
by Jerome Klapka Jerome

ISBN 046002504X (0-460-02504-X)
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Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
by Marq De Villiers

ISBN 0618127445 (0-618-12744-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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What Your Third Grader Needs to Know
by E.D. Hirsch

ISBN 0385336268 (0-385-33626-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Grade by grade, these groundbreaking and successful books provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of a good education for first to sixth graders.

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The Yellow River.
by Margaret Rau, Haris Petie

ISBN 0671321250 (0-671-32125-0)
Hardcover, Silver Burdett Pr

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