Rivers

Zusatztext This small paperback is a succinct and yet impressively broad and engaging introduction to the subject ... Middleton covers an astonishing amount of ground in five chapters. Informationen zum Autor Nick Middleton is a geographer, writer, and presenter of television documentaries. He teaches at Oxford University where he is a Fellow of St Anne's College. He has written more than 200 articles and 20 books for a variety of audiences, most on geographical, travel, or environmental themes, including Deserts: A Very Short Introduction (2009). His experience of rivers is wide-ranging. He has floated down the Mekong and water skied on the Congo, bird-watched in the Danube delta and driven the length of the lower Mississippi. His daily relationship with the Thames is close and personal. Klappentext This Very Short Introduction is a celebration of rivers in all their diversity. Nick Middleton covers a wide and eclectic range of river-based themes, from physical geography to mythology, to industrial history and literary criticism. Worshipped and revered, respected and feared, rivers reflect both the natural and social history of our planet. Zusammenfassung This Very Short Introduction is a celebration of rivers in all their diversity. Nick Middleton covers a wide and eclectic range of river-based themes, from physical geography to mythology, to industrial history and literary criticism. Worshipped and revered, respected and feared, rivers reflect both the natural and social history of our planet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Nature's driver 2: Strong brown gods 3: Liquid histories 4: Roads that move 5: Rearranged rivers Epilogue Further reading

Product details

• Authors: Nick Middleton, Nick (Fellow in Geography Middleton, Middleton Nick
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2012
• EAN: 9780199588671
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958867-1
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 173 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Very Short Introductions; A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION; A Very Short Introductions; A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION; Very Short Introductions; A Very Short Introductions; Very Short Introduction
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; NATURE / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Limnology, Limnology (inland waters), The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Limnology (Freshwater)