River-Related Nonfiction Titles

Mississippi River

Amb, Thomas M. America and the Mississippi River.

Anderson, Gary Clayton. Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862.

Arpy, J.J. Magnificent Mississippi.

Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America.

Bates, George E., Jr. Historic Lifestyles in the Upper Mississippi River Valley.

Ben, Nathan. God of the Country: A Voyage on the Mississippi River.

Blair, Walter. Mike Fink.

Bloom, Khaled J. The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878.

Botkin, B.A., ed. Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore.

Capers, Gerald Morrtimer. The Mississippi River before and after Mark Twain.

Changnon, Stanley A., ed. The Great Flood of 1993: Causes, Impacts, and Responses.

Childs, Marquis. Mighty Mississippi.

Coombe, Jack D. Thunder along the Mississippi: The River Battles That Split the Confederacy.

Coulter, Tony, et al. La Salle and the Explorers of the Mississippi.

Daniel, Pete. Dee'N as It Come: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood.

Darrell-Brown, Susan. The Mississippi. Rivers of the World Series.

Dorsey, Florence L. Road to the Sea: The Story of James B. Eads and the Mississippi River.

Ekberg, Carl J. French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times.

Ellet, Charles. The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

Frasier, Jim, and William F. Winter. Mississippi River Country Tales: A Celebration of 500 Years of Deep South History.

Geus, Theodore. The Mississippi.

Guillory, Dan, and Leslie Tanner Guilllory. When the Waters Recede: Rescue and Recovery during the Great Flood.

Hall, B.C., and C.T. Wood. Big Muddy: Down the Mississippi through America's Heartland.

Harmon, Daniel E. Jolliet and Marquette: Explorers of the Mississippi River.

Henson, Ted. The Mississippi River.

Judson, Katharine Berry. Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley.

Larson, Ron. Upper Mississippi River History: Fact-Fiction-Legend.

Lauber, Patricia. Flood; Wrestling with the Mississippi.

Lourie, Peter. Mississippi River: A Journey down the Father of Waters.

Lowry, Robert. History of the Mississippi from the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto.

Malcolm, Andrew H., and Roger Strauss, III. Mississippi Currents: Journeys through Time and a Valley.

Mathur, Anuradha, et al. Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape.

McCall, Edith. Biography of a River: The Living Mississippi.

McCarthy, Ann. Mississippi River.

McLeod, Reggie. Big River Reader: An Anthoogy of Stories about the Upper Mississippi. [Very Useful]

McSherry, Frank, Jr., et al. Mississippi River Tales.

Middleton, Pat. Discover!: America's Great River Road: St. Paul, Minnesota, to Dubuque, Iowa: The Upper Mississippi Valley.

Middleton, Pat, and Norma G. Norriss. Discover!: America's Great River Road: The Lower Mississippi: St. Louis, Missouri, to Memphis, Tennessee.

Monette, John W. History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi, by the Three Great European Powers, Spain, France, and Great Britain.

Moore, Clarence Bloomfield. Some Aboriginal Sites on the Mississippi River.

Morgan, Nina, and Laurence Fordyce. The Mississippi. Rivers of the World Series.

Mudd-Ruth, Maria. The Mississippi River. Ecosystems of North America Series.

Naden, Corinne J. The Mississippi: America's Great River System.

Ogg, Frederic Austin. The Opening of the Mississippi: A Struggle for Supremacy in the American Interior.

Otto, John Solomon. The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930: Settling the Southern Bottomlands.

Pollard, Michael. The Mississippi. Great Rivers Series.

Raban, Jonathan. Old Glory: A Voyage down the Mississippi.

Rothert, Otto A., and Robert Clark. The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days upon the Ohio and Mississippi.

Sandweiss, Lee Ann, et al, ed. Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City, 1670-2000.

Scarpino, Philip V. Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1950.

Stein, R. Conrad, and Tom Dunnington. The Story of Mississippi Steamboats.

Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi.

Usner, Daniel H. American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories.

Wald, Elijah, et al. River of Song: A Musical Journey down the Mississippi.

Watkins, Tom H. Mark Twain's Mississippi: A Pictorial History of America's Greatest River.

Wyman, Mark. Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830-1860.

Bergnon, Frank, et al, eds. The Journals of Lewis and Clark.

Botkin, Dniel B. Passage of Discovery: The American Rivers Guide to the Missouri River of Lewis and Clark.

Ewers, John Canfield. Indian Life on the Upper Missouri.

Hafen, Le Roy R., et al. Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri.

Kronenberg, Kenneth, et al. Lives and Letters of an Immigrant Family: The Van Dreveldts' Experiences along the Missouri, 1844-1866.

Lourie, Peter. In the Path of Lewis and Clark: Traveling the Missouri.

Nasatir, A.P., ed. Before Lewis and Clark: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri, 1785-1804.

Peterson, Nancy Mayborn. People of the Troubled Water: A Missouri River Journal.

Pierce, Don. Exploring Missouri River Country.

Sandoz, Mari. Old Jules.

Sandweiss, Lee Ann, et al, ed. Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City, 1670-2000.

Schneiders, Robert Kelley. Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change along the Missouri.

Schultz, James Willard. Floating on the Missouri.

Thayer, Tom. The Missouri River Country of Montana and North Dakota.

Thorne, Tanis C. The Many Hands of My Relations: French and Indians on the Lower Missouri.

Thorson, John E. River of Promise, River of Peril: The Politics of Managing the Missouri River.

Vestal, Stanley, et al. The Missouri.

Charbonneau, Hubert, et al. The First French Canadians: Pioneers in the St. Lawrence Valley.

Hanmer, Trudy. The St. Lawrence.

Scott, Sandy. The St. Lawrence River: Its Economy and Environment.

Willis, Terri. St. Lawrence River and Seaway.

Winks, Honor Leigh, and Robin W. Winks. St. Lawrence. Rivers of the World Series.

Adams, Arthur G. The Hudson, An Anthology of Classic Literature about the River.

--. Hudson: A Guidebook to the River.

--. The Hudson: A History of the River Valley.

--. The Hudson through the Years.

Adams, Arthur G., ed. The Hudson River in Literature: An Anthology. [Very Useful.]

Bacon, Edgar M. Hudson River from Ocean to Source.

Beirne, Elizabeth. The Hudson River: Inspiration and Challenge.

Boyle, Robert H. The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History.

Bruce, Wallace. Along the Hudson with Washington Irving.

Buckman, David L. Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River.

Burmeister, Walter F. Appalachian Waters 2: The Hudson River and Its Tributaries.

Carmer, Carl Lamson. The Hudson. Rivers of America Series.

Carr, Clifton. The Hudson River: A River That Flows Two Ways.

Hope, Jack. A River for the Living: The Hudson and Its People.

Howat, John K. The Hudson River and Its Painters.

Keller, Allan. Life along the Hudson.

Lake, Tom. The Hudson River Almanac.

Lassiter, Barbara Babcock. American Wilderness: The Hudson River School of Painting.

Limburg, Karin E., et al. The Hudson River Ecosystem.

Lossing, Benson John, and Pete Seeger. The Hudson.

Lourie, Peter. Hudson River: An Adventure from the Mountains to the Sea.

Marranca, Bonnie, ed. Hudson Valley Lives: Writings from the 17^th Century to the Present.

McNeer, May. Hudson, River of History.

Meeske, Harrison. The Hudson Valley Dutch and Their Houses.

Mills, Edward L., et al. Biological Invasions in the Hudson River Basin.

Minks, Louise. Hudson River School. American Art Series.

Rajs, Jake, et al. The Hudson River: From Tear of the Clouds to Manhattan.

Richardson, Ralph W., Jr., and Gilbert Richardson. The Hudson River Basin: Environmental Problems and Institutional Response.

Richman, Irwin. Hudson River: From New York City to Albany.

Rohmann, Steven O., et al Tracing a River's Toxic Pollution: A Case Study of the Hudson.

Ruttenber, E.M. Indian Tribes of Hudson's River: To 1700.

--. Indian Tribes of Hudson's River: 1700-1850.

Scheller, William G. The Hudson River Valley.

Simpson, Jeffrey. An American Treasure: The Hudson River Valley.

--. The Hudson River, 1850-1918: A Photographic Portrait.

Stanne, Stephen P. The Hudson: An Illisutrated Guide to the Living River.

Van Zandt, Roland. Chronicles of the Hudson: Three Centuries of Travel and Adventure.

Whitcraft, Melissa. The Hudson River.

Williams-Myers, A.J. On the Morning Tide: African Americans, History and Methodology in the Historical Ebb and Flow of Hudson River Society.

Albert, Richard C. Damming the Delaware: The Rise and Fall of Tocks Island Dam.

Burmeister, Walter F. Appalachian Waters, I: The Delaware River and Its Tributaries.

Cheripko, Jan. Voices of the River: Adventures on the Delaware.

Dale, Frank. Delaware Diary: Episodes in the Life of a River.

Garber, John Palmer. The Valley of the Delaware and Its Place in American History.

Harding, John J., ed. Marsh, Meadow, Mountain: Natural Places of the Delaware Valley.

Lender, Mark Edward. The River War: The Fight for the Delaware, 1777.

Lord, Beman, and Allan Eitzen. On the Banks of the Delaware: A View of Its History and Folklore.

Majumdar, Shymal K. Ecology and Restoration of the Delaware River Basin.

Stutz, Bruce. Natural Lives, Modern Times: People and Places of the Delaware River.

Weslager, C.A. New Sweden on the Delaware, 1638-1655.

Beatty, Christopher. The Susquehanna River Guide.

Brubaker, John H. Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake.

Glimm, James York. Snakebite: Lives and Legends of Central Pennsylvania.

Mancall, Peter C. Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800.

Stranahan, Susan Q. Susquehanna, River of Dreams.

Voigt, William. The Susquehanna Compact: Guardian of the River's Future.

Banta, R.E., and Thomas Dionysius Clark. The Ohio.

Bigham, Darrel E. Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio.

Borowiec, Andrew. Along the Ohio.

Brant, Warren E. Log to the Ohio River.

Burmeister, Walter F. Appalachian Wters 5: The Upper Ohio and Its Tributaries.

Carlson, F. Coal Traffic on the Ohio River System.

Ellet, Charles. The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

Fernow, Berthold. The Ohio Valley in Colonial Days.

Foster, Emily, and Rita Kohn, eds. The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings.

Havighurst, Walter. River to the West: Three Centuries of the Ohio.

Hinderaker, Eric. Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800.

Hulbert, Archer B. Ohio River, a Course of Empire.

Hunter, Louis C., ed. Studies in the Economic History of the Ohio Valley.

Jakle, John A. Images of the Ohio Valley: A Historical Geography of Travel, 1740-1860.

Laycock, George, et al. The Ohio Valley: Your Guide to America's Heartland.

Lippincott, Isaac. A History of Manufactures in the Ohio Valley to the Year 1860.

McConnell, Michael N. A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples, 1724-1774.

Pearce, John Ed, and Richard Nugent. The Ohio River.

Perkins, Elizabeth A., and John Dabney Shane. Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley.

Reid, Robert L., ed. Always a River: The Ohio River and the American Experience.

Rothert, Otto A., and Robert Clark. The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days upon the Ohio and Mississippi.

Sanabria, Sergio. Portsmouth: Architecture in an Ohio River Town.

Smith, Larry. Steel Valley: Postcards and Letters.

Swetnam, George. Devils, Ghosts, and Witches: Occult Folklore of the Upper Ohio Valley.

Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Afloat on the Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo.

Trotter, Joe William, Jr. River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley.

Truman, Timothy. Wilderness: The True Story of Simon Girty, the Renegade.

Brose, David S. Yesterday's River: The Archaeology of Ten Thousand Years along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

Colignon, Richard A. Power Plays: Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Creese, Walter L. TVA's Public Planning: The Vision, the Reality.

Davidson, Donald, et al.. The Tennessee: The Old River: Frontier to Succession.

--. The Tennessee: The New River: Civil War to TVA.

Dickinson, Calvin, ed. Lend an Ear: Heritage of the Tennessee Upper Cumberland.

Grant, Nancy L. TVA and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo.

Hargrove, Edwin C. Prisoners of Myth: The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990.

Hargrove, Edwin C., and Paul K. Conkin. TVA: Fifty Years of Grassroots Bureaucracy.

Kollar, Robert, et al. The Tennessee Valley: A Photographic Portrait.

Trevathan, Kim. Paddling the Tennessee River: A Voyage on Easy Water.

Bean, Frederic. The Red River.

Begg, Alexander. Red River Journal.

Crowder, Dorothy. Tales of the Red River Valley.

Freeman, Thomas, and Peter Custis. Account of the Red River in Louisiana.

Haley, James L. The Buffalo War: The History of the Red River Indian Uprising of 1874.

Johnson, Ludwell H. Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil War.

Joiner, Gary, and Eric J. Brock. Red River Steamboats.

Leckie, William, ed. Indian Wars of the Red River Valley.

Tyson, Carl N. The Red River in Southwestern History.

Gordon, Alice, et al. Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: Texas and the Arkansas River Valley.

Mills, William. The Arkansas: An American River.

Ragsdale, William Oates. They Sought a Land: A Settlement in the Arkansas River Valley, 1840-1870.

Rampton, Thomas G. Arkansas River Guide: Granite to Canon City, Colorado: A Mile-by-Mile Guide to the River with Regional Geology.

Sherman, Jory. The Arkansas River.

Sherow, James Earl. Watering the Valley: Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950.

Staub, Frank, and Peter Anderson. The Upper Arkansas River: Rapids, History, and Nature Mile by Mile.

Horgan, Paul. Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. Volume 1: Indians and Spain. Volume 2: Mexico and the United States.

Kelley, Pat. River of Lost Dreams: Navigation on the Rio Grande.

Lourie, Peter. Rio Grande: From the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico.

Martin, Craig. Rio Grande River Journal.

Mueller, Jerry E. Restless River: International Law and the Behavior of the Rio Grande.

Sperry, Armstrong. Great River, Wide Land.

Bass, Rick. Platte River.

Currier, Paul J. Migratory Bird Habitat on the Platte and North Platte Rivers in Nebraska.

Fremont, John Charles. A Report on an Exploration of the Country Lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains on the Line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers.

Harris, Katherine. Long Vistas: Women and Families on Colorado Homesteads.

Johnsgard, Paul A. The Platte: Channels in Time.

Lingle, Gary R. Birding Crane River: Nebraska's Platte.

Mattes, Merrill J. The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie.

Muntz, Geoffrey. A Path through Time: A Guide to the Platte River Greenway.

Peterson, Nancy M. People of the Moonshell: A Western River Journal.

Pettine, Eric. North Platte River Journal.

Rosenbluth, C., et al. Threats to Wildlife and the Platte River.

Carrier, Jim, and Jim Richardson. The Colorado: A River at Risk.

Collier, Michael, and David L. Wegner. Water, Earth, and Sky: The Colorado River Basin.

Dellenbaugh, Frederick. The Romance of the Colorado River.

Dirksen, D.J., and R.A. Reeves. Recreation on the Colorado River.

Dirksen, Greg, and John McKinney. Colorado River Recreation Guide.

Doherty, Craig A. Hoover Dam.

Dunar, Andrew J., and Dennis McBride. Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression.

Farquar, Francis. Books of the Colorado River: A Selective Bibliography.

Fleck, Richard F. A Colorado River Reader. [Very Useful.]

Fletcher, Colin. River: One Man's Journey down the Colorado, Source to Sea.

Fradkin, Philip L. A River No More: The Colorado River and the West.

Hopkins, Virginia. Colorado River.

Hundley, Norris. Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West.

Lavender, David Sievert. Colorado River Country.

Paher, Stanley W. Colorado River Ghost Towns.

Powell, John Wesley. The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons.

Spamer, A. Bibliography of the Grand Canyon and the Lower Colorado River from 1540.

Stanton, Robert Brewster. Colorado River Controversies.

Stevens, Larry, ed. Colorado River in Grand Canyon: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Natural and Human History.

Waters, Frank. The Colorado. [Very Useful.]

Winks, Honor Leigh, and Robin W. Winks. Colorado. Rivers of the World Series.

Adams, Ansel. Tetons and Snake River.

Conley, Cort, et al. Snake River of Hells Canyon.

Eller, Geraldine Crill. Along the Snake.

Gulick, Bill, and Earl Roberge. Snake River Country.

Guthero, Ed. Fire and Rain: A Portrait of the Contemporary West: Images from the great Snake River Country of Idaho and Oregon.

Harward, Lanny. Snake River Secrets.

Huegel, Tony. Idaho Byways: Adventure Roads from the Panhandle to Central Mountains, the Snake River.

Katschke, Judy. Snake River.

Kjelstrom, L.C. Streamflow Gains and Losses in the Snake River and Ground-Water Budgets for the Snake River Plain, Idaho and Eastern Oregon.

Lindholm, Gerald F. Summary of the Snake River Plain Regional Aquifer-System Analysis in Idaho and Eastern Oregon.

Moser, Don. The Snake River Country.

Nelson, Sharlene. Umbrella Guide to Exploring the Columbia-Snake River Inland Waterway.

Palmer, Tim. The Snake River: Window to the West.

Petersen, Keith. River of Life, Channel of Death: Fish and Dams on the Lower Snake.

Roberge, Earl. Those Snake River Dams.

Allen, John Eliot. The Magnificent Gateway: A Layman's Guide to the Geology of the Columbia River Gorge.

Beckenstein, Alan R., et al. Hydropower and Salmon in the Columbia River Basin.

Clark, Robert. River of the West: Stories from the Columbia.

Cone, Joseph. A Common Fate: Endangered Salmon and the People of the Pacific Northwest.

Dietrich, William. Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River.

Harden, Blaine. A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia.

Jones, Philip N. Columbia River Gorge: A Complete Guide.

Lang, William L., ed. Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River. [Very Useful.]

Latham, Jean Lee. The Columbia: Powerhouse of North America.

Lemaster, Denise. Columbia Valley Guide.

Miller, Christopher L. Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau.

Nelson, Sharlene. Umbrella Guide to Exploring the Columbia-Snake River Inland Waterway.

Palmer, Tim. The Columbia: Sustaining a Modern Resource.

Pitzer, Paul C. Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream.

Rapp, Valerie. Life in a River: The Columbia River Basin.

Roberge, Earl. Columbia: Great River of the West.

Roe, Joann. The Columbia River: A Historical Travel Guide.

Ruby, Robert H. The Chinook Indians: Traders of the Lower Columbia River.

Schwantes, Carlos A., and Jerry L. Ostermiller. Columbia River: Gateway to the West.

Thayer, Tom. The Columbia River Country of Montana and North Idaho.

Ulrich, Robert. Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River.

White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River.

Cohen, S. Yukon River Steamboats: A Picture History.

Degraf, Anna. Pioneering on the Yukon 1892-1917.

De Laguna, Frederica. Travels among the Dena: Exploring Alaska's Yukon Valley.

Dykstra, Monique. My Heart on the Yukon River: Portraits from Alaska and the Yukon.

Fejes, Claire. Villagers: Athabascan Indian Life along the Yukon River.

Haines, Jan Harper. Cold River Spirits: The Legacy of an Athabascan-Irish Family from Alaska's Yukon River.

Hildebrand, John. Reading the River: A Voyage down the Yukon.

Karpes, Gus. Exploring the Upper Yukon River.

Lourie, Peter. Yukon River: An Adventure to the Gold Fields of the Klondike.

Murphy, Claire Rudolph, and Jane G. Haigh. Children of the Gold Rush.

Satterfield, Archie. Exploring the Yukon River.

--. The Yukon River Trail Guide.

Schwatka, Frederick. Along Alaska's Great River.

Tryck, Keith. Yukon Passage: Rafting 2,000 Miles to the Bering Sea.

Yardley, Joyce. Yukon Riverboat Days.

Amazon River System

Allen, Benedict. Mad White Giant: A Journey to the Heart of the Amazon Jungle.

Anderson, Robin L. Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest, 1758-1911.

Barbosa, Luiz C. The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.

Bourne, Richard. Assault on the Amazon.

Branford, Susan, and Oriel Glock. The Last rontier: Fighting over Land in the Amazon.

Braun, Barbara, and Peter G. Roe, eds. Arts of the Amazon.

Browder, John O. Rainforest Cities.

Bunker, Stephen G. Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State.

Cleary, David. Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush.

--. The Brazilian Rainforest: Politics, Finance, Mining, and Environment.

Cousteau, Jacques Yves. Jacques Cousteau's Amazon Journey.

Cowell, Adrian. The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rain Forest.

Davis, Wade. One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest.

De Onis, Juan. The Green Cathedral: Sustainable Development of Amazonia.

Derbshire, Desmond C., and Geoffrey K. Pullum, eds. Handbook of Amazonian Languages.

Descola, Philippe. Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle.

Dickinson, Robert E., ed. The Geophysiology of Amazonia: Vegetation and Climate Interactions.

Dixon, Robert M.W. The Amazonian Languages.

Dorson, Mercedes, et al, ed. Tales from the Rain Forest: Myths and Legends from the Amazonian Indians of Brazil.

Duke, James A., and Rodolpho Vasquez Martinez. Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary.

Faminow, Merle D. Cattle, Deforestation, and Development in the Amazon: An Economic, Agronomic, and Environmental Perspective.

Elbe, Martin. Tales from the Amazon.

Fearnside, Philip Martin. Human Carrying Capacity of the Brazilian Rainforest.

Furneaux, Robin. The Amazon: The Story of a Great River.

Gash, J.H.C. Amazonian Deforestation and Climate.

Gheerbrant, Alain. The Amazon: Past, Present, and Future. [Very Useful]

Ghoulding, Michael. Amazon: The Flooded Forest.

Goulding, Michael, et al, eds. Floods of Fortune.

Hall, Anthony, and David S. Goodman, eds. The Future of Amazonia: Destruction or Sustainable Development?

Hecht, Susanna, and Alexander Cockburn. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon.

Hemming, John. Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians.

Henley, Paul. Amazon Indians.

Herndon, William Lewis, et al. Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon.

Kozar, Richard. Theodore Roosevelt and the Exploration of the Amazon Basin.

Le Breton, Binka. Voices from the Amazon.

Lewington, Anna. Rain Forest Amerindians.

Little, Paul E. Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers.

Lutz, Dick. The Hidden Amazon: The Greatest Voyage in Natural History.

Maliggo, Pedro. Land of Metaphorical Desires: The Representation of Amazonia in Brazilian Literature.

Malkus, Alida Sims. The Amazon: River of Promise.

Margolis, Mac. The Last New World: The Conquest of the Amazon Frontier.

Maxwell, Nicole. Witch-Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazon.

Medina, Jose Toribio. The Discovery of the Amazon.

Meggers, Betty J. Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise.

Montgomery, Sy. Journey of the pink Dolphins-An Amazon Quest.

Moran, Emilio F. The Dilemma of Amazonian Development.

--. Through Amazonian Eyes: The Human Ecology of Amazonian Populations.

Morrison, Marion. The Amazon Rain Forest and Its People.

Pirotta, Saviour. Stories from the Amazon.

Pollard, Michael. The Amazon. Great Rivers Series.

Ridgway, John M. Amazon Journey: From the Source to the Sea.

Roosevelt, Anna, ed. Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives.

Rzoska, Julian. On the Nature of Rivers with Case Studies on Nile, Zaire, and Amazon.

Schmink, Marianne. Frontier Expansion in Amazonia.

Schneider, Robert R. Government and the Economy on the Amazon Frontier.

Shoumatoff, Alex. The Rivers Amazon. [Very Useful]

Smith, Anthony. Explorers of the Amazon.

Smith, Nigel J.H. The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People.

--. The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest: Stories from a Vanishing World.

--. Man, Fishes, and the Amazon.

Slater, Candace. Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon.

Sponsel, Leslie E., ed. Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World.

St. Clair, David. The Mighty, Mighty Amazon.

Sternberg, Hilgard O'Reilly. The Amazon River of Brazil.

Stewart, Douglas Ian. After the Trees: Living on the Transamazon Highway.

Stone, Roger D. Dreams of Amazonia.

Tierney, Patrick. Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon.

Wallace, Alfred R. A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro.

Waterlow, Julia. The Amazon. Rivers of the World Series.

Webb, Alex. Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds.

Branston, Brian. The Last Great Journey on Earth.

Rawlins, Carol B. The Orinoco River.

River Plate

De Mundo Lo, Sara. Index to Spanish American Collective Bibliography: The River Plate Countries.

Ferguson, John Halcro. The River Plate Republics: Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay.

Graham, R. Cunninghame. Conquest of the River Plate.

Laopez-Alves, Fernando. Between the Economy and the Polity in the River Plate: Uruguay, 1811-1890.

Pope, Dudley. Battle of the River Plate.

Vale, Brian. A War betwixt Englishmen: Brazil against Argentina on the River Plate.

Zlotchew, Clark M., and Paul David Seldes. Voices of the River Plate: Interviews with Writers of Argentina and Uruguay.

EUROPEAN RIVERS

Alfry, Sandra. The River Thames.

Atterbury, Paul, and Anthony Haines. The Thames: From the Source to the Sea.

Banks, Leslie, and Christopher Stanley. The Thames: A History from the Air.

Bates, L.M. The Spirit of London's River: Memoirs of the Thames Waterfront.

--. The Thames on Fire: The Battle of London River, 1939-1945.

Belloc, Hilaire, and A.R. Quinton. The Historic Thames.

Bolland, R.R. Victorians on the Thames.

Brown, R. Douglas. The Port of London.

Bullock, Michael. Voices of the River: A Rhapsody.

Burstall, Patricia. Golden Age of the Thames.

Chaplin, Peter H. The Thames, from Source to Tideway.

Clarke, C.E. The Timeless Stream: Tales of the Thames.

Cohen, Ben. The Thames, 1580-1980: A General Bibliography.

Cracknell, Basil E. Portrait of London River: The Thames from Teddington to the Sea.

De Marce, Eric Samuel. London's River: The Story of a City.

Dickens, Charles. Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, from Its Source to the Nore, 1893, an Unconventional Handbook.

Doxat, John. The Living Thames: The Restoration of a Great Tidal River.

Ellmers, Chris, and Alex Werner. London's Lost Riverscape: A Photographic Panorama.

Felix, Paul, and Bill Charlton. A Year on the Thames.

Fidler, Kathleen. The Thames in Story.

Hill, David. Turner on the Thames: River Journeys of the Year 1805.

Howard, Philip. London's River.

Leapman, Michael. London's River: A History of the Thames.

Luckin, Bill. Pollution and Control: A Social History of the Thames in the Nineteenth Century.

Mindell, Ruth. Bridges over the Thames.

Owens, W.H. The Royal River: The History of the River Thames.

Phillips, G.A. Thames Crossings: Bridges, Tunnels, and Ferries.

Prichard, Mari. A Thames Companion.

Rogers, Daniel, and Isabel Lilly. The Thames. Rivers of the World Series.

Shrapnel, Norman. A View of the Thames.

Southwood, Jill. Flood Control on the River Thames.

Thacker, Frederick Samuel. The Thames Highway.

Weightman, Gavin. London River: The Thames Story.

Wheeler, Alwyne C. The Tidal Thames: The History of a River and Its Fishes.

Wilson, D.G. The Victorian Thames.

Wright, Patrick. The River: The Thames in Our Time.

Ash, Russell, and Bernard Higton. The Impressionists' River: Views of the Seine.

Geerlings, Gerald K. Paris along the Seine

Hills, C.A.R. The Seine.

More, Julian, and Carey More. Impressions of the Seine.

Rawlins, Carol B. The Seine.

Rosenblum, Mort. The Secret Life of the Seine.

Skeggs, Douglas. River of Light: Monet's Impressions of the Seine.

Trager, Philip. Changing Paris: A Tour along the Seine.

Allen, Peter. One More River: The Rhine Crossings of 1945.

Asselman, Nathalie Eugenie Marie. Suspended Sediment in the River Rhine: The Impact of Climate Change on Erosion, Transport, and Deposition.

Banfield, Thomas. Industry of the Rhine. 2 vols.

Hills, C.A.R. The Rhine.

Hones, Tristan. The Improbable Voyage: Of the Yacht Outward Leg Into, Through, and Out of the Heart of Europe.

Kwadijk, Jaap. The Impact of Climate Change on the Discharge of the River Rhine.

Okun, Marcia L. The Early Roman Frontier in the Upper Rhine Area: Assimilation and Acculturation on a Roman Frontier.

Pilkington, Roger. Small Boat on the Lower Rhine.

--. Small Boat on the Upper Rhine.

Pollard, Michael. The Rhine. Great Rivers Series.

Porter, Cecelia Hopkins. The Rhine as a Musical Metaphor: Cultural Identity in German Romantic Music.

Printing, Jarrold. Baedeker Rhine.

Schutz, Herbert. The Romans in Central Europe.

Scott, Tom. Regional Identity and Economic Change: The Upper Rhine, 1450-1600.

Smalley, Mark, and David Cumming. The Rhine. Rivers of the World Series.

Spence, Lewis. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine.

Van De Kraats, Ja A. Rehabilitation of the River Rhine.

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Danube River

Arnold, Guy. Down the Danube: From the Black Forest to the Black Sea.

Bizubova, Maria, and Daniel Kollar, eds. The Slovak-Austrian-Hungarian Danubeland.

Bowlus, Charles R. Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788-907.

Curta, Florin. The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500-700.

Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook og Holland, the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates.

Focas, Spiridon G. The Lower Danube River.

Heikell, Rod. The Danube: A River Guide.

Hills, C.A.R. The Danube. Rivers of the World Series.

Lessner, Erwin Christian. The Danube: The Dramatic History of the Great River and the People Touched by Its Flow.

Magris, Claudio. Danube.

Marriner, John. Black Sea and Blue River.

Murphy, Irene Lyons. The Danube: A River Basin in Transition.

Romsics, Ignac, and Bela K. Kiraly, eds. Geopolitics in the Danube Region: Hungarian Reconciliation Efforts, 1848-1998.

Schutz, Herbert. The Romans in Central Europe.

Wechsberg, Joseph. The Danube: 2,000 Years of History, Myth, and Legend.

Wolfram, Herwig. Treasures on the Danube: Barbarian Invaders and Their Roman Inheritance.

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Oder River

Vistula River

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RUSSIAN RIVERS

Dnieper River

Don River

Sauriol, Charles. Tales of the Don.

Volga River

Bertaz, Gottlieb. The German Colonies on the Lower Volga: Their Origin and Early Development.

Chamberlain, Lesley. Volga, Volga: A Journey down Russia's Great River.

De Villiers, Marq. Down the Volga: A Journey through Mother Russia in a Time of Troubles.

Farson, Daniel. A Dry Ship to the Mountains: Down the Volga and across the Caucasus in My Father's Footsteps.

Federov-Davydov, G.A. The Culture of the Golden Horde Cities.

Figes, Orlando. Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution (1917-1921).

Kloberdanz, Timothy J. Thunder on the Steppe: Volga German Folklife in a Changing Russia.

Long, James W. From Privileged to Dispossessed: The Volga Germans, 1860-1917.

Watson, Jane Werner. The Volga: Russia's River of Five Seas. Rivers of the World Series.

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AFRICAN RIVERS

Budge, Ernest A. Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt and Egyptian Sudan.

Caputo, Robert. Journey up the Nile.

Cohen, Daniel. Henry Stanley and the Quest for the Source of the Nile.

Collins, Robert O. Waters of the Nile: An Annotated Bibliography.

Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford. A Thousand Miles up the Nile.

Erlikh, Hagai. The Cross and the River: Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Nile.

--. The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths.

Godana, Bonaya. Africa's Shared Water Resources: Legal and Institutional Aspects of the Nile, Niger, and Senegal River Systems.

Langley, A. Explorers on the Nile.

Manley, Deborah. The Nile: A Traveller's Anthology.

Midant-Reynes, Beatrix. The Prehistory of Egypt: From the First Egypt to the First Pharoahs.

Moorhead, Alan. The Blue Nile. [Very Useful.]

--. The White Nile. [Very Useful.]

Naden, Corinne J. The Nile River.

Pollard, Michael. The Nile. Great Rivers Series.

Pye-Smith, Charles. The Other Nile.

Rzoska, Julian. On the Nature of Rivers with Case Studies on Nile, Zaire, and Amazon.

Said, Rushdi. The River Nile: Geology, Hydrology, and Utilization.

Schmutnig, Kuno. Alone on the Blue Nile.

Spencer, A. Jeffrey. Early Egypt: The Rise of Civilization in the Nile Valley.

Waterlow, Julia. The Nile. Rivers of the World Series.

Worthington, Edgar Barton. The Nile.

Bovill, E.W. The Niger Explored.

Gibbal, Jean-Marie. Genii of the River Niger.

Godana, Bonaya. Africa's Shared Water Resources: Legal and Institutional Aspects of the Nile, Niger, and Senegal River Systems.

Ikime, Obaro. Merchant Prince of the Niger Delta: The Rise and Fall of Nana Olomu, Last Governor of the Benin River.

Jenkins, Mark. To Timbuktu.

Jenness, Aylette. Along the Niger River: An African Way of Life.

Lloyd, Christopher. The Search for the Niger.

Ludwig, Peter. Black Nile: Mungo Park and the Search for the Niger.

McIntosh, Roderick James. The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold.

Morgan, Ted. The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River. [Very Useful.]

Naylor, Kim. Discovery Guide to West Africa: The Niger and Gambia River Route.

Okonta, Ike, et al. Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta.

Park, Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa.

Roberts, Richard L. Warriors, Merchants, and Slaves: The State and the Economy in the Middle Niger Valley, 1700-1914.

Thomson, Joseph. Mungo Park and the Niger.

Walker, Joseph A. The River Niger.

Watson, Jane. The Niger: Africa's River of Mystery.

Baker, Samuel W. Heart of Africa.

Batchelor, John, and Julie Batchelor. The Congo. Rivers of the World Series.

Blashford-Snell, John. In the Steps of Stanley.

Forbath, Peter. The River Congo: The Discovery, Exploration and Exploitation of the World's Most Dramatic River. [Extremely Useful]

Harms, Robert W. River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The central Zaire Basin in the Era of Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891.

Hyland, Paul. The Black Heart: A Voyage into Central Africa.

Johnston, Harry Hamilton. The River Congo, from Its Mouth to Baolaobao, with a General Description of the Natural History and Anthropology of Its Western Basin.

Lauber, Patricia. Congo River into Central Africa.

McKnown, Robin. The Congo, River of Mystery.

Nugent, Rory. Drums along the Congo: On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosaur.

Rzoska, Julian. On the Nature of Rivers with Case Studies on Nile, Zaire, and Amazon.

Snailham, Richard. A Giant among Rivers: The Story of the Zaire River Expedition 1974-75.

Stewart, Gary. Rumba on the River: A History of Popular Music of the Two Congos.

Winternitz, Helen. East along the Equator: A Journey up the Congo and into Zaire.

Coppinger, Mike. Zambezi: River of Africa.

Edwards, Stephen John. Zambezi Odyssey: A Record of Adventure on a Great River of Africa.

Hasler, Richard. Agriculture, Foraging, and Wildlife Resource Use in Africa: Cultural and Political Dynamics in the Zambezi Valley.

Martelli, George. Livingstone's River: A History of the Zambezi Expedition, 1858-1864.

Pikirayi, Innocent, and Joseph O. Vogel. The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States.

Teede, Jan, and Fiona Teede. The Zambezi: River of the Gods.

Tumbare, M.J. Management of River Basins and Dams: The Zambezi River Basin.

Venables, Bernard. Coming down the Zambezi.

White, Landeg. Bridging the Zambezi: A Colonial Folly.

MIDDLE EASTERN RIVERS

Rzaoska, Julian. Euphrates and Tigris, Mesopotamian Ecology and Destiny.

Whitcraft, Melissa. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

Young, Gavin. Return to the Marshes: Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq.

ASIAN RIVERS

Fairley, Jean. The Lion River, the Indus.

Meadows, Peter, ed. The Indus River: Biodiversity, Resources, Humankind.

Watson, Jane Werner. The Indus, South Asia's Highway of History.

Alter, Stephen. Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture.

Basu, A.K. Ecological and Resource Study of the Ganga Delta.

Bernstein, Henry T. Steamboats on the Ganges: An Exploration in the History of India's Modernization through Science and Technology.

Berwick, Dennison. A Walk along the Ganges.

Bilgrami, K.S. The Living Ganga.

Crow, Ben, et al. Sharing the Ganges: The Politics and Technology of River Development.

Cumming, David. The Ganges. Rivers of the World Series.

Darian, Steven G. The Ganges in Myth and History.

Darian, Steven G. Ganges of the Mind: A Journey on the River of Dreams.

Douglas, Gina. The Ganges.

Eaton, David J. Water Resource Challenges in the Ganges-Brahmaputra River Basin.

Finley, Diana. The Ganges.

Lewin, Ted. Sacred River.

Mahajan, Jagmohan. The Eternal Ganga.

Newby, Eric. Slowly Down the Ganges.

Pollard, Michael. The Ganges.

Rice, Edward. The Ganges: A Personal Encounter.

Singh, Raghubir. Ganges.

Swain, Ashok. The Environmental Trap: The Ganges River Diversion, Bangladeshi Migration, and Conflicts in India.

Weingarten, Violet. The Ganges: Sacred River of India.

Baldizzone, Tiziana, et al. Tales from the River Brahmaputra: Tibet, India, Bangladesh.

Chamoli, S.P. Rafting down the Brahmaputra.

Eaton, David J. Water Resource Challenges in the Ganges-Brahmaputra River Basin.

Aoyagi, Kenji. Mekong, the Last River.

Burleigh, Charles. The Living Mekong.

Dieu, Nguyen Thi, and Thi Dieu Nguyen. The Mekong River and the Struggle for Indochina: Water, War, and Peace.

Dramer, Kim. The Mekong River.

Gargan, Edward A. A River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong.

Hoskin, John. The Mekong, a River and Its People.

Lightfoot, Paul. Mekong. Rivers of the World Series.

Osborne, Milton. The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future.

Osborne, Milton E., et al. River Road to China: The Search for the Source of the Mekong, 1866-73.

Peissel, Michel. The Last Barbarian: The Discovery of the Source of the Mekong in Tibet.

Sesser, Stan. Life along the Mekong: Asia's River People from China to Vietnam.

Sluiter, Liesbeth. The Mekong Currency: Lives and Times of a River.

Bangs, Richard, and Christian Kallen. Riding the Dragon's Back: The Race to Raft the Upper Yangtze.

Chetham, Deidre. Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Upper Yangtze River.

Cowles, Ben Thomson. Through the Dragon's Mouth: Journeys into the Yangzi's Three Gorges.

Dai, Qing, et al. Yangtze! Yangtze!

Hessler, Peter. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze.

Hook, Brian, ed. Shanghai and the Yangtze Delta: A City Reborn.

Kaiya, Zhou, et al. Baiji: The Yangtze River Dolphin and Other Endangered Animals of China.

Lynn, Madeline, ed. Yangtze River: The Wildest, Wickedest River on Earth: An Anthology. [Very Useful.]

Luk, Shiu-Hung. Megaproject: A Case Study of China's Three Gorges Project.

Pollard, Michael. The Yangtze. Great Rivers Series.

Qing, et al. The River Dragon Has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People.

Rau, Margaret. The Yangtze River.

Spencer, Cornelia. The Yangtze: China's River Highway.

Theroux, Paul. Sailing through China.

Van Slyke, Lyman P. Yangtze: Nature, History, and the River.

Winchester, Simon. The River at the Center of the World: A Journey up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time.

Wong, How-Man. Exploring the Yangtze: China's Longest River.

De Chair, Somerset Struben, The Legend of the Yellow River.

Dodgen, Randall A. Controlling the Dragon: Confucian Engineers and the Yellow River in Late Imperial China.

Dramer, Kim. The Yellow River.

Greer, Charles. Water Management in the Yellow River Basin of China.

Gregory, K.J. Yellow River.

Hill, Justin. A Bend in the Yellow River: Huang-Ho.

Lowe, Joseph D. Yellow River Valley: A Geopolitical Appraisal.

Pan, Lynn. China's Sorrow: Journeys around the Yellow River.

--. Into China's Heart.

Rau, Margaret, and Haris Petie. The Yellow River.

Sinclair, Kevin. The Yellow River: A 5000 Year Journey through China.

Murray-Darling River System

Colwell, Max. The Big Rivers: Murray, Murrumbidgee, Darling.

Parsons, Ronald H. Ships of the Inland Rivers: An Outline History and Details of All Known Paddle Ships, Barges, and Other Vessels Trading on the Murray-Darling System.