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- Author
- Martin Doyle
- Narrator
- Keith Sellon-Wright
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 6 February 2018
- Run Time
- 10 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- History, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Technology: general issues, Environmental science, engineering and technology, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Rivers and lakes, Science: general issues, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Physical geography and topography, Water supply and treatment, History of the Americas, Earth sciences, Climate change
What to expect
Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution's roots in interstate river navigation, the origins of the Army Corps of Engineers, the discovery of gold in 1848, and the construction of the Hoover Dam and the TVA during the New Deal, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina. And through encounters with experts all over the country?a Mississippi River tugboat captain, an Erie Canal lock operator, a western rancher fighting for water rights?Doyle reveals how we've dammed, raised, rerouted, channelized, and even 're-meandered" our rivers.
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Details
- Author
- Martin Doyle
- Narrator
- Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duration
- 10 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 February 2018
- ISBN
- 9781684410279
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- History, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Technology: general issues, Environmental science, engineering and technology, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Rivers and lakes, Science: general issues, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Physical geography and topography, Water supply and treatment, History of the Americas, Earth sciences, Climate change
Synopsis
In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment?over federalism, taxation, regulation, conservation, and development.Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution's roots in interstate river navigation, the origins of the Army Corps of Engineers, the discovery of gold in 1848, and the construction of the Hoover Dam and the TVA during the New Deal, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina. And through encounters with experts all over the country?a Mississippi River tugboat captain, an Erie Canal lock operator, a western rancher fighting for water rights?Doyle reveals how we've dammed, raised, rerouted, channelized, and even 're-meandered" our rivers.
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