Humans' fascination with water finds full expression in this stellar collection. Included are writings from Mark Twain, who marvels at the teeming humanity on the Ganges; Henry Stanley, searching for Livingston and discovering instead Lake Albert Edward; as well as selections from A Complete Angler and A River Runs Through It; and more than a dozen other classic works by explorers, adventurers, natural historians, and novelists.
Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 808.84/9321693
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781553652441 9781926685120
- LCCN
- PN6071.W37
- LCCN Item number
- D37 2007eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (171 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00224856 (OCoLC)666229453 (CaOOCEL)427659
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- A Literary Companion to Mountains 2
- Izaak Walton 5
- John James Audubon 5
- 28 Nathaniel Hawthorne 5
- Charles Darwin 5
- Henry Walter Bates 5
- Mark Twain 5
- Henry Morton Stanley 5
- John Burroughs 5
- Rupert Brooke 6
- 61 Theodore Dreiser 6
- Henry Beston 6
- Donald Culross Peattie 6
- 79 Bruce Hutchison 6
- Norman Maclean 6
- Redmond OHanlon 6
- 101 6
- Roderick Haig-Brown 6
- 110 6
- Kate Grenville 6
- 113 6
- William Least Heat-Moon 6
- 118 Ted Williams 7
- Kevin Van Tighem 126 7
- David James Duncan 137 7
- Trevor Herriot 141 7
- Jill Frayne 149 7
- John McPhee 157 7
- 169 7
- La Fleuve 11
- Creation Homo sapiens 12
- Homo sapiens 12
- New Yorker 14
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Apocalypse Now 14
- Homo sapiens 15
- The Compleat Angler 16
- Gallinula cayennensis 42
- August 29th 42
- September 16th. 43
- Bertholletia excelsa 44
- September 26th. 45
- Steno tucuxi Inia georoyi 45
- Delphinus pallidus 46
- Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America 76
- Youll probably lose Youre sure to lose. 94
- They call this Broken Bay River comes in 111
- See yon- der Oysters the shells Suck the guts out chuck the shells away. Been doing it since the year dot. And fish My word they get the fish. 112
- Not putting none by For tomorrow like 112
- Aye Not putting none by. Why would they River aint going nowhere. 112
- Nikawa 114
- Nikawa 115
- Nikawa 117
- Salvelinus fontinalis 120
- Midsummer Nights Dream. 124
- Poor woman Its not a mudhole. Its a tide flat. 140
