The River Reader

by John A. Murray (Editor)

The finest essays on rivers by Hemingway, Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and others.

Gone back into the earth (from Crossing open ground) / Barry Lopez --
from Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain --
This savage land (from The book of Yaak) / Rick Bass --
from Down an unknown river / Theodore Roosevelt --
And the salmon sing / Louise Wagenknecht --
The Allegash and East Branch (from The Maine woods) / Henry David Thoreau --
Flood (from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) / Annie Dillard --
from Exploration of the Colorado River and its canyons / John Wesley Powell --
Reversing the tides / Lisa Couturier --
from Travels of William Bartram / William Bartram --
from Downriver: a Yellowstone journey / Dean Krakel --
from Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad --
Tanner Trail and mesquite thickets (from Downcanyon: a naturalist explores the Colorado River through Grand Canyon) / Ann Haymond Zwinger --
from Missouri River journals / John James Audubon --
Along the delta (from Reading the river: a voyage down the Yukon) / John Hildebrand --
The best rainbow trout fishing. Fishing the Rhone Canal. Trout fishing in Europe / Ernest Hemingway --
Midnight's rivers (from Rivers of memory) / Harry Middleton --
from the Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition / Meriwether Lewis --
The Willamette (from Riverwalking) / Kathleen Dean Moore --
Sachem River (from A river never sleeps) / Roderick Haig-Brown --
from Mississippi solo / Eddy Harris --
The river of returning / John A. Murray --
Afton water / Robert Burns --
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Genres: Nature

320 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1998