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Books grouped by river; rivers listed alphabetically: E ~ L
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Bernstein, Peter L.,
WEDDING OF THE WATERS: The Erie Canal and the Making of a
Great Nation.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. 448 pages.
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"The history of the Erie Canal is a story of American
ingenuity. A great project
that Thomas Jefferson judged to be 'little short of madness,'
and that others
compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the
most successful and
influential public investments in American history. In Wedding
of the Waters,
best-selling author Peter L. Bernstein recounts the canal's
creation within the
larger tableau of a youthful America in the first
quarter-century of the 1800s.
Leaders of the fledgling nation had quickly recognized that the
Appalachian
mountain range was a formidable obstacle to uniting the
Atlantic states with the
vast lands of the west. A pathway for commerce as well as
travel was critical to
the security and expansion of the Revolution's unprecedented
achievement.
Bernstein examines the social ramifications, political squabbles, and economic
risks and returns of this mammoth project. He goes on to
demonstrate how the
canal's creation helped bind the western settlers in the
new lands to their
fellow Americans in the original colonies, knitted the sinews
of the American
industrial revolution, and even influenced profound economic
change in Europe.
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FRENCH BROAD RIVER
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[French Broad]
Dykeman, Wilma, THE FRENCH BROAD.
Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. As new copy, trade paperback. University of Tennessee Press, Wakestone Books, 1992. Originally published in 1955. Bibliography, index, 371 pages.
In the introduction, Wilma Dykeman writes, ...this is the chronicle of a river and a watershed, and a way of life where yesterday and tomorrow meet in odd and fascinating harmony... Dwellers of the French Broad country are learning an ancient lesson in all their natural resources; it is easy to destroy overnight treasures that cannot be replaced in a generation, easy to destroy in a generation that which cannot be restored in centuries.
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GILA RIVER
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$17.50
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[Gila River]
Calvin, Rose,
RIVER OF THE SUN: Stories of the Storied Gila.
Albuquerque: 1946, 1st edition, University of
New Mexico Press. G-(wear to boards, some stains within, ex-lib marks) Brown boards;
beautiful endpapers, illustrations $17.50
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$22.50
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[Gila River]
McNamee, Gregory, GILA: The Life and Death of an American River.
NY: 1994, 1st edition,
Orion Books. VG-(ink dot to edge) in VG+ dust jacket Grey boards; illustrations $22.50
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[Gowanus Canal]
Waldman, John, HEARTBEATS IN THE MUCK.
NY: 1999, 1st edition, Lyons. VG+ in VG+ dust jacket;
gold boards; illustrations $20.00
. "New York Harbor is a rich aquatic wilderness that surrounds the world's greatest city. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass, visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor suffered centuries of rampant environmental abuse: garbage dumping, oil spills, sewage sludge, pesticides, heavy metals, poisonous PCBs, landfilling, and dredging greatly diminished its life, in some places to nil.
John Waldman chronicles this history, focusing on the animals, water quality, and habitats of the harbor, with personal accounts of his explorations of its farthest and most noteworthy reaches: a shad camp near the George Washington Bridge, the Arthur Kill (home of the resurgent heron colonies), the Hackensack Meadowlands, the darkness under a giant Manhattan pier, and the famously polluted Gowanus Canal. And the prognosis he provides for New York Harbor is a good one. Environmental action and awareness have allowed the harbor to cleanse itself, if not completely, at least enough to return a largely still-unrecognized vitality to its waters. Although New York Harbor will never regain its native biological glory, the return of oysters, striped bass, and a host of other creatures are symbols of what once seemed impossible-a harbor reborn."
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[Hudson River]
Carmer, Carl, THE HUDSON. VG/VG. Minor chipping to jacket (in mylar), and small area scraped off on front panel.
Book itself is bright & tight. Farrar and Rinehart, 1939, First Edition. Illustrated by Stow Wengenroth.
Illustrated end pages. Bibliography, index, 434 pages. No. 6 in the Rivers of America series; described as the
best title in the series. The Hudson is less a formal historical account of the discovery and development of the
river than a personal, anecdotal view of it. Included are tales of white-sailed sloops and steamboat racing from
Albany to New York; of old whalers and trader sea dogs of the Catskill shore; of showboats playing anti-rent
melodramas to incite farmers against their landlords; of great disasters and heroic deeds; of the efforts of
the Hudson River School to capture "sublimity" on canvas; of the quarrelsome, rough-and-tumble life of the
Dutch along the river's banks; and many more. "[Carmer] tells the story of what I consider to be the most
scenic of all American rivers through a series of episodes handed down from generation to generation.
The style is intimate and his manner of story-telling is mesmeric. And when you've turned the last page,
you've been entertained and educated about the heartland of early America. " ~~ The Trenton Times.
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[Hudson River]
Clyne, Patricia, HUDSON VALLEY TALES AND TRAILS. Woodstock:
1997, 1st edition, Overlook. VG+
trade paperback; illustrations $10.00
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[Hudson River]
Eberlin, Harold Donaldson and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard,
HISTORIC HOUSES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY.
NY: Reprint of 1942 edition, Bonanza. VG-. No dust jacket. Green boards; oversize; illustrations
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[Gifford], Kevin J. Avery (Editor), Eleanor Jones Harvey, Franklin Kelly, Heidi Applegate,
HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL VISIONS: THE LANDSCAPES OF SANFORD R. GIFFORD.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Yale University Press, 2003.
10x11. 304 pages. "Sanford Robinson Gifford was a leading Hudson River School artist. His love of nature
first surfaced as a youth growing up in Hudson, New York, and, together with his admiration
for the works of Thomas Cole, inspired him to become a landscape painter. Influenced as well
by J. M. W. Turner and by trips to Europe in the 1850s, Gifford's art was termed "air
painting," for he made the ambient light of each scene-color saturated and atmospherically
enriched-the key to its expression. Gifford was a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
At the time of his death, he was so esteemed by the New York art world that the Museum
mounted an exhibition of his work-its first accorded an American artist-and published a
Memorial Catalogue that for nearly a century remained the principal source on the artist.
Now, to coincide with a long-overdue exhibition of Gifford's work, an important new book
is being issued. This volume features essays examining Gifford's position in the Hudson
River School, his Catskill and Adirondack subjects, his patrons, and his adventures as a
traveler both at home and abroad. More than seventy of the artist's best-known sketches
and paintings are discussed and reproduced in color." Currently in print at $60.
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[Hudson River]
Rose, Peter G., FOODS OF THE HUDSON.
NY: 1993, 1st edition, Overlook. VG+ in VG+ dust jacket 0879514892
brown boards; illustrations $22.50
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[Illinois River]
Ayars, James, THE ILLINOIS RIVER.
NY: 1968, 1st edition, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. G+
(flyleaf torn out, ex-lib markings) in VG- dust jacket Orange boards; illustrations $15.00
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[Illinois River]
Gray, James, THE ILLINOIS.
VG. Trade Paperback. University of Illinois Press, "A Prairie State Book". Illustrated by Aaron Bohrod, with an
introduction by John Hallwas. Originally published in 1940 by Farrar & Rinehart; this edition published in 1989.
Bibliography, index, 355 pages. "From the arrival of Marquette and Jolliet in 1673 to the emergence of the prairie poets--Edgar Lee Master, Carl Sandberg, and Vachel Lindsay--in the twentieth century, James Gray traces the saga of the Illinois River and the people of central Illinois."
No. 11 in the Rivers of America series. This paperback edition currently in print at $24.95.
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Books grouped by river; rivers listed alphabetically: E ~ L
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