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

The Delaware River flows out of New York's Catskill Mountains and winds its way through woodland and...
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Natural Lives, Modern Times: People and Places of the Delaware River by Stutz, Bruce

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

$75.05

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

$75.05
Author: Bruce Stutz
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The Delaware River flows out of New York's Catskill Mountains and winds its way through woodland and rural farmland, through the great Water Gap ravine, and finally past one of the world's most industrialized riverfronts. Yet it remains one of the country's last undammed rivers, with a natural life as rich and varied as its human history.

In Natural Lives, Modern Times, Bruce Stutz has written a thoroughly modern natural history, blending keen observations of the nature of the Delaware's enduring complex of river, glacial streams, marshlands, and forest with glimpses of history and folklore and with luminous portraits of those whose lives are sustained by the river. The Delaware was the waterway of the nation's first mercantile, philosophical, scientific, cultural, and industrial heartland, hosting immigrants from Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean, all looking for new lives along the ancient river.

In this always entertaining and often haunting intertwining of human and natural history, Bruce Stutz discovers those who regret what has been lost and those passionate about preserving what remains. Most of all, however, he lets us see what's at stake in a wonderfully diverse world. Not since Mark Twain has anyone taken such a freewheeling river journey.

Author: Bruce Stutz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 07/29/1998
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.18w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780812216585

About the Author
Bruce Stutz is editor of Natural History Magazine. His articles on science, natural history, and the environment have appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, and many other magazines and newspapers.

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