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With 68 compellingly beautiful photographs, Turner Browne documents a fast-disappearing way of life for the people who live on the lower White River and issues a plea to save the river from irreversible damage by the Army Corps of Engineers. By demonstrating that the endless dredging and flood control projects of the ever-active Corps are destroying the river's natural beauty and the livelihoods of those who make the river their only home - on houseboats and along its banks - he argues graphically and heroically for the preservation of a unique culture and of a great river. The black-and-white photographs, taken between Batesville, Arkansas, and the confluence with the Mississippi River, tell a story of loss, nostalgia, and fortitude as they portray the river's remarkable character and the exceptional lifestyles of acorn gatherers, sturgeon fishers, mussel divers, and others who extract a meager but satisfying existence from the river's resources. The damage the Corps of Engineers has wrought, including cleared forests, piles of debris, and "containment structures", certainly tolls a death knell for much of this natural waterway. The Last River is a journey, a journey probably never to be taken again.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Earth sciences Hydrology & the hydrosphere

• Plný název: Last River
• Autor: Turner Browne
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 130
• EAN: 9781557282910
• ISBN: 9781557282910
• ID: 06347789
• Nakladatelství: University of Arkansas Press
• Hmotnost: 1002 g
• Rozměry: 265 × 260 × 17 mm
• Datum vydání: 15. August 1993

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