Rivers of America

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Rivers of America pays tribute to America's most captivating water routes in a splendid display of over one
hundred color images. Describing each river as an historic, commercial or wilderness highway, Paul Vasey discusses such routes as the Ohio River, the Rio Grande, the Mississippi River, and the Columbia River Gorge.
RIVERS
OF AMERICA
The rivers of our continent have for centuries played an essential role in the history of our development. Used as highways during the exploration and settlement of North America, they have continued to connect our lands and cities to larger bodies of water and to foreign shores.
In Rivers of America, Paul Vasey explores the nature of these rivers and our relationship with them. While sixteenth- and seventeenth-century explorers paddled along the backs of rivers, attempting to carve a route to the shores of Cathay, a tradition of travel, trade, and settlement was being established. Besieged by harsh winters, sullen shores, spectacular... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Rivers of America pays tribute to America's most captivating water routes in a splendid display of over one
hundred color images. Describing each river as an historic, commercial or wilderness highway, Paul Vasey discusses such routes as the Ohio River, the Rio Grande, the Mississippi River, and the Columbia River Gorge.
RIVERS
OF AMERICA
The rivers of our continent have for centuries played an essential role in the history of our development. Used as highways during the exploration and settlement of North America, they have continued to connect our lands and cities to larger bodies of water and to foreign shores.
In Rivers of America, Paul Vasey explores the nature of these rivers and our relationship with them. While sixteenth- and seventeenth-century explorers paddled along the backs of rivers, attempting to carve a route to the shores of Cathay, a tradition of travel, trade, and settlement was being established. Besieged by harsh winters, sullen shores, spectacular cataracts, fierce currents, and wild animals, explorers such as Henry Hudson and David Thompson penetrated, nevertheless, the heartlands of North America. Today, our major water routes are used for commerce and international trade. The St. Lawrence Seaway, for example, es-tabhshed in 1959, has opened America to business, and a series of dams and canals built along the Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Tennessee Rivers aid navigation, control flooding, and harness hydroelectric power.
Captured in over a hundred images by renowned photographers, America's rivers are presented here in vivid detail. From the Ohio River to the Rio Grande; from the Mississippi River to the Mackenzie Delta; from the Colorado River to the Columbia River Gorge, our water routes are seen to course through our lands and our lives. Rivers of America pays tribute to these rivers and to their place in our history, our commerce, and our wilderness.
i. J Vissza