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Books grouped by river; rivers listed alphabetically: A ~ D
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Brush, Frederic,
THE ALLEGHENIANS. NY: 1940, 1st edition, Blackshaw Press. G(1/2" near front corner
with light wear and water spot, back corner with 1/4" water spot) in G+(minor chips and tears)dj Green boards; scarce item $125.00
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APALACHICOLA RIVER
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$25.00
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[Apalachicola River]
Willoughby, Lynn,
FAIR TO MIDDLIN': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the
Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley.
Tuscaloosa: 1993, 1st edition, University of Alabama Press.
Near fine Green boards; illustrations.
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BRANDYWINE RIVER
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$10.00
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[Brandywine River]
Canby, Henry Seidel,
THE BRANDYWINE.
Illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. As new trade paperback. Schiffer Publishing Ltd., West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1969. Originally published in 1941,
No. 13 in the Rivers of America series. Bibliography, index, 285 pages. "The Brandywine River winds from Southeastern Pennsylvania into Delaware along a rolling, agricultural plane. Henry Seidel Canby was born along its banks into a family that has lived in the region for generations. His personal affection for the river is woven into this charming history of events that make the Brandywine one of America's
most important small rivers. He explains how the Swedes built the first log cabins in America at the mouth of the Brandywine, why William Penn's Quakers later came here, that prairie schooners were built to haul grain to local flour mills, and how the duPont family started a chemical empire in these narrow gorges. The Battle of the Brandywine
was a major confrontation in America's war for independence. Andrew Wyeth's illustrations capture the main events in the beautiful landscapes the artist knows personally, for he, too,
has lived on those banks all his life. Done early in Mr Wyeth's career, these pictures exhibit the personal style of drawing that has developed and make him one of America's best known living
artists."
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COLORADO RIVER
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$17.50
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[Colorado River]. Abbey, Edward, et al,
THE HIDDEN CANYON: A River Journey.
SF: 1999, 1st edition,
Chronicle. VG- (ink mark to edge), large trade paperback; illustrations $17.50
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Sports Afield: "Although millions of people visit Arizona's Grand Canyon each year, few experience the fear and thrill of rafting a dory for the 277 miles of the Colorado river that both meanders and roars beneath. Blausten documents such a journey with his stunning photographs of rocks, whitewater and wildlife; an 18-day journal from Edward Abbey; and an introduction from Martin Litton."
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$22.50
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[Colorado River]
Blaustein, John and Edward Abbey,
THE HIDDEN CANYON: A River Journey.
SF: 1999, 1st edition,
Chronicle Books. VG+ (owner inscription to flyleaf), large trade paperback;
illustrations $22.50
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$25.00
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[Colorado River]
Callahan, Gerald N., RIVER ODYSSEY: The Story of the Colorado Plateau.
Niwot: 1998, 1st edition, University Press of Colorado. As
new in as new dust jacket, brown boards; illustrations $25.00
. Book News: "The author presents poems, essays, and personal photographs--mementos from seven life-altering years of hiking the Colorado Plateau. Alternating from reminiscences of his father and raising children, to tales of tree frogs and unforgiving canyons, his story winds from Lake Powell and the San Rafael Swell through the Grand Canyon, Green River, Moab, and Mexico. No index."
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$50.00
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[Colorado River]
Kolb, Ellsworth L., THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON FROM WYOMING TO MEXICO.
NY: 1947, Macmillan.
VG(owner;s signature to endpaper) in G dust jacket, Pictorial boards; beautiful illustrations $50.00
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$10.00
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[Colorado River]
Powell, J.W., THE EXPLORATION OF THE COLORADO RIVER AND CANYONS. NY: 1961, Dover. VG(1 light corner bump) Trade paperback; illustrations $10.00
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$15.00
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[Colorado River]
Waters, Frank, THE COLORADO.
Athens, OH: Swallow/Ohio University Press. Like new. Trade paperback
$15.00
. “This wonderful and unusual book is more than a history of the region. In the author’s own remarkable
words, ‘the book was an attempt to perceive…the presence of the spirit-of-place of the immense wilderness of
the Colorado and its effect upon us.’” ~~ Council Fires
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$45.00
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[Colorado River]
Watkins, T.H., et al, THE GRAND COLORADO: The Story of a River and Its Canyons.
Palo Alto:
1969, 1st edition, American West Pub. Co. VG/VG Orange boards; oversize; illustrations $45.00
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COLUMBIA RIVER
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$18.00
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[Columbia River]
Carriker, Robert C. & William L. Lang (eds), GREAT RIVER OF THE WEST. NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK, 9x6. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. 181 pages.
"In the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and in ways both profound and mundane its history is the history of the region. In Great River of the West historians and anthropologists consider a range of topics about the river, from Indian rock art, Chinook Jargon, and ethnobotany on the Columbia to literary and family history, the creation of an engineered river, and the inherent mythic power of place. Since first contact between Euro-Americans and Native peoples during the late 18th century, the river's history has been characterized by dramatic demographic, social, and economic changes. The remarkable set of essays in Great River of the West investigate these changes by highlighting important episodes in the history of the river. Readers meet mariners who challenge the Columbia River bar, a family torn by insanity, Native people who preserve fishing traditions, and dam-builders who radically change the Columbia."
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$22.50
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[Columbia River]
Dietrich, William, NORTHWEST PASSAGE: The Great Columbia River.
NY: 1995, 1st edition, Simon
and Schuester. VG-(faint ink mark to edge) in VG dust jacket, Brown boards; illustrations $22.50
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"Dietrich's measured, thoughtful book views the Columbia through a succession of different lenses -
as a bountiful fishery for the Indians, as a snag-ridden and nearly impassable highway for the early
white explorers, as a hugely powerful manufacturer of hydroelectricity, as a source of irrigation for farmers,
as the town drain for the mining and nuclear weapons industries. His Columbia is really a woven braid of the
many rivers of the fisherman, the farmer, the engineer, the towboat operator, the explorer, the industrialist." -Jonathan Raban, author of Old Glory.
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$12.50
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[Columbia River]
Mann, Anthony, BEND OF THE RIVER.
Hollywood: 1996(1952), MCA. VG in VG-( a few minor staple
holes)slipcase Vhs video with James Stewart $12.50
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CONCORD RIVER
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$15.00
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[Concord River]
Thoreau, Henry David, A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS.
NY: 1966, Thomas Y. Crowell.
VG-(light creases, price blacked out, light wear) Trade paperback $15.00
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COPPER RIVER
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$28.00
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[Copper River]. Anne H. Ehrlich, Paul R. Erlich & Riki Ott,
ALASKA'S COPPER RIVER DELTA. 8x10.
NEW copy. PAPERBACK. University of Washington Press. "Alaska's Copper River Delta visits the largest wetland on the Pacific coast of North America - with its associated rain forest, barrier islands, mountains, and glaciers, and its wildlife and human inhabitants - and reveals the Delta through the work of 22 artists from 11 countries. Invited by local residents and the Netherlands-based Artists for Nature Foundation, artists came to the Delta to see spawning runs of Copper River salmon and the world's greatest shorebird migration. They stayed in the seaport of Cordova, working closely with residents to portray their daily lives on fishing boats and in processing plants, and visited a Chugach-Aleut spirit camp to appreciate the community's spiritual strengths. Together, artists and residents seek to both celebrate and protect the area's magnificent natural resources and cultural diversity, while helping to build a healthy future for all inhabitants."
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CUMBERLAND RIVER
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$45.00
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[Colorado River]. Arnow, Harriette Simpson,
SEEDTIME ON THE CUMBERLAND.
VG/VG. Jacket has some creasing to extremities & is price-clipped. Protected by mylar. Macmillan Company, 1960, First Edition. Maps (including end-pages,
page-end notes, index, 449 pages. "The Cumberland River basin is a 'curious shoe-like shape, something like an old-time buskin,
badly worn and wrinkled, with a gob of mud caught in the instep blurring the heel...' This new book by Harriette Siompson Arnow is
chiefly the story of the first white settlers who came to the Bluegrass and limestone valleys of that buskin, which embraces much of southern Kentucky, and most of middle Tennessee, centering on
Nashville. The life of 1780-1803 has never been drawn in such detail..." Contains a chapter on the Cumberland River itself, and its early exploration.
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$16.00
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[Colorado River]. Arnow, Harriette Simpson,
SEEDTIME ON THE CUMBERLAND. NEW copy, trade paperback.
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$16.00
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[Colorado River]. Arnow, Harriette Simpson,
FLOWERING OF THE CUMBERLAND. NEW copy, trade paperback.
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Books grouped by river; rivers listed alphabetically: A ~ D
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[C & O Canal]
High, Mike,
THE C AND O CANAL COMPANION.
Baltimore: 1997, 4th printing, Johns Hopkins University Press.
As new, trade paperback; illustrations $14.50
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