For the Love of Rivers: A Scientist's Journey

by Kurt D. Fausch

Book Overview

Rivers and streams supply our water and capture our imaginations. We seek the more pristine ones to fish or paddle, to hike along or simply sit and watch. But what is it we are seeing? What is essential about streams and rivers for us as humans? In For the Love of Rivers, stream ecologist Kurt Fausch draws readers across the reflective surface of streams to view and ponder what is beneath, and how they work. While celebrating their beauty and mystery,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870717707
• ISBN13: 9780870717703
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"