Rivers can be extraordinarily powerful, and not just because of their fast-flowing currents. They can make civilizations rise or crumble, divide cultures or link them together, and even provide crucial clues to where we came from.
Dive into these 10 surprising stories about the power of rivers through the ages:
- How the "lucky accident" of the Nile's unique flooding patterns allowed the culture of Ancient Egypt to flourish in one of the hottest, driest places on earth
- How medieval robber barons seized -- then lost -- control of the Rhine
- Why the Amazon helped scientists discover how species evolve
- How Livingstone's ill-fated exploration of the Zambezi changed Africa forever
- Why just about every hit song can be traced back to the Mississippi River
- How the massive Three Gorges Dam displaced over one million Chinese in the Yangtze River Valley
- Why people in India have gathered to bathe in the Ganges for thousands of years
- The crucial roles of the Awash (Ethiopia), the Thames (England), and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (the Middle East) in human history.
Compelling storytelling, striking original art, and colorful photos take readers on a unique journey across time and place.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-129) and index
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Table of Contents
- AwAsh 9
- A River of Bones 9
- 3 million years ago 12
- Wonderful Lucy 15
- Did You Bring Your Hip Waders 16
- Footprints in the Mud of Time 18
- Awash in Fossils 19
- Solo River Java River of the Missing Link 20
- MesopotAMiA 24
- 681 BCe 24
- Floods Fact and Fiction 27
- Canals then and now 28
- The Tiber River Rome Water Water Everywhere 29
- Life on the River The Shatt al Arab 33
- Rivers and Civilization 34
- AswAn 38
- 2470 BCe 38
- Nile Time 40
- My Youve grown 41
- River transport 42
- Sightseeing on the Nile 44
- A River Civilization 45
- The Indus River Pakistan Fight the Flood 46
- Rhine 47
- An international River 47
- ALong the Rhine RiveR 50
- 1255 50
- River of Ages 52
- My River no Mine 53
- The Cost of Doing River Business 54
- Fact or Fiction The Mouse Tower of the Rhine 55
- Call the Rhine League 56
- Save Our Queen 56
- The Lamari River Watery Divider 58
- AMAzon 59
- A world of water 59
- 2014 62
- Backward and Forward 64
- Collecting the Amazon 65
- Learning to Look Closely 67
- A Fishy Tale 67
- The Murray River Aboriginal Homeland 70
- An African River and a scottish Doctor 76
- Mapping gods highway 77
- The St. Lawrence Canadas Beaver Highway 78
- Capetown to Cairo A Bridge over the Zambezi 80
- Angering the River Gods 82
- LonDon 86
- 1824 86
- Jellied Eel Anyone 88
- London Bridge is Falling Down . . . 89
- Working the River 91
- Frosty River Fun 93
- The River at War 94
- The Tone River Natural or Man-made 95
- Mudlarks today 96
- Mississippi 97
- River of song 97
- Mississippi 98
- River of song 98
- 1921 100
- Music of the Mississippi 102
- Life on the Mississippi 103
- Captain Blanche Leathers 105
- Louis Armstrong the Luckiest horn player 106
- The Danube River More River Blues 108
- River of Faith 109
- ALLAhABAD 112
- January 2013 112
- River of Faith 114
- Wearing Down the Mountains 114
- Life Along the River 116
- Drinking the water of immortality 117
- The Jordan Holy Rivers 118
- YAngtze 119
- A Changing River 119
- 1911 122
- Dam It 125
- The Newcomer Sun Yat-sen 127
- The Colorado River Water to the Desert 129
- ACknowLeDgMents 132
- ABoUt the AUthoR ABoUt the iLLUstRAtoR 137
