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The past five centuries have witnessed a shocking series of confrontations between European nations and millions of indigenous peoples, and these cultural encounters still resonate strongly to this...

Caldecott Honor winner Elisha Cooper invites readers to grab their oars and board a canoe down a river exploration filled with adventure and beauty.In Cooper's flowing prose and stunning watercolor...

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers...

One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning...

An anthology that explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Rivers were the arteries of our first...

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE *It’s not a river, it’s this river.A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend’s teenage son. After...

Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system--including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi--forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the...

"Endo has successfully dramatized the discovery that the sacred river of humanity flows within ourselves."―National Catholic Reporter In this moving novel, a group of Japanese tourists, each of whom...

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges and from the venerable Thames to the mighty Mississippi—the rivers of the world wind through this collection of stories from the world's great writers.River...

Leslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin--a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side. In her...

Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel...

The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us Rivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do...

Daniel McCool not only chronicles the history of water development agencies in America and the way in which special interests have abused rather than preserved the country's rivers, he also narrates...

Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in PoetryEric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short ListMedal Provocateur FinalistIPNE Book Awards Poetry WinnerTender the River captures in verse the history and legacy...

"The Virgin River books are so compelling—I connected instantly with the characters and just wanted more and more and more." —#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie MacomberWelcome back to...

LOCUS AWARD FINALISTWelcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave...

Underneath a waterfall on a remote Tasmanian mountain river, river guide Aljaz Cosini is drowning, beset by visions of his own life and those of his family and ancestors, in stories that reconnect...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • Winner of The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book AwardA new classic of science reporting.”—The New York TimesThe true story of a small town ravaged by...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait—the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s...

In Glory River, David Huddle’s poems pit precise observation, extravagant language, and humor against despair in an attempt to find a way to live in a new century in which the values of the past are...