Natural Lives, Modern Times Bruce Stutz

"Piquant, and uncommonly eloquent."--Kirkus Reviews "Stutz is an eloquent advocate for the river and the region's preservation."--Publishers Weekly The Delaware River flows out of New York's Catskill Mountains and winds its way through woodland and rural farmland, through the great Water Gap ravine, and finally past one of the world's most industrialized riverfronts. Yet it remains one of the country's last undammed rivers, with a natural life as rich and varied as its human history. In Natural Lives, Modern Times, Bruce Stutz has written a thoroughly modern natural history, blending keen observations of the nature of the Delaware's enduring complex of river, glacial streams, marshlands, and forest with glimpses of history and folklore and with luminous portraits of those whose lives are sustained by the river. The Delaware was the waterway of the nation's first mercantile, philosophical, scientific, cultural, and industrial heartland, hosting immigrants from Europe, Africa, and... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Natural Lives, Modern Times (Bruce Stutz)