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River Bones: Source-to-Sea Journeys that Remapped Continents

River Bones: Source-to-Sea Journeys that Remapped Continents

Von Mirelle, Clara

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 9375364682
ISBN13: 9789375364689
Publisher: Mindful Pages
Published: Feb 21 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every river looks simple at a distance: a blue line on a map, a brief blur beneath a bridge. Up close, each bend turns out to be crowded with stories of struggle, ingenuity and care. This book walks the length of great waterways alongside paddlers, hydrologists, Indigenous guardians and ferrymen, tracing a layered river history that most atlases ignore. Chapter by chapter, it shows how flood forecasters, levee sceptics and delta pilots quietly changed the way societies understand hydrology and society. Their work reshaped flood maps, dam plans and legal language around rights of rivers, often long before those phrases made headlines. Along the way, readers see how environmental justice rivers campaigns, indigenous water guardians and sharp-eyed river rangers challenge old assumptions about who gets to speak for the water. For readers of narrative environmental non-fiction, policy debates and travel writing, this is a source-to-sea journey through water governance in practice. It brings to life source to sea journeys that connect shrinking glaciers to sinking deltas, and floodplain management decisions to everyday lives on the banks. By the end, you will see your own local channel differently: not as scenery, but as a living system whose future depends on the choices we make about river conservation book priorities and climate change rivers realities today.

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