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Downstream toward home : a book of rivers
- Title
- Downstream toward home : a book of rivers / Oliver A. Houck.
- Author
- Houck, Oliver A.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IXZ 14-8217 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- vi, 239 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Rivers > United States
- United States > Description and travel
- Northwest Territories > Environmental conditions
- Rivers > Northwest Territories
- Canoes and canoeing > United States
- United States > Environmental conditions
- Houck, Oliver A > Travel > United States
- Northwest Territories > Description and travel
- Houck, Oliver A > Travel > Northwest Territories
- Canoes and canoeing > Northwest Territories
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239).
- Contents
- Prelude -- Part I. Explorations, 1954-1981 -- Egypt's Creek (New Jersey, 1954) -- Charles River (Massachusetts, 1957) -- Greenbrier River (West Virginia, 1970) -- Shenandoah River (Virginia, 1970) -- Juniper Springs (Florida, 1972) -- Big Sur River (California, 1973) -- Shuttles (West Virginia and Mississippi, 1970-1990) -- Great Falls of the Potomac (Maryland, 1974) -- Deerfield River (Vermont, 1974) -- Rock Creek (District of Columbia, 1975) -- Barren Grounds (Northwest Territories, 1976) -- Cache La Poudre (Colorado, 1977) -- Chesapeake & Ohio Canal (Maryland, 1978) -- Verde River (Arizona, 1978) -- Blackwater River (West Virginia, 1979) -- Saint John River (Maine, 1981) -- Interlude -- Part II. South toward home, 1981-2013 -- Atchafalaya River (Louisiana, 1982) -- Shell Bank Bayou (Louisiana, 1985) -- Rio Grande (Texas, 1986) -- Buffalo River (Arkansas, 1987) -- Horn Island (Mississippi, 1988) -- Horton River (Northwest Territories, 1993) -- Pearl River (Louisiana, 1993) -- Green River (Utah, 1994) -- Gila River (New Mexico, 1997) -- Bayou Sauvage (Louisiana, 2005) -- Deschutes River (Oregon, 2006) -- Old River (Mississippi, 2006) -- Red Creek (Mississippi, 2009) -- Bayou Sorrel (Louisiana, 2010) -- Grande Ronde (Oregon and Washington, 2013) -- Wolf River (Mississippi, 2013) -- Postlude.
- Call Number
- IXZ 14-8217
- ISBN
- 9780807157459 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 0807157457 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 9780807157466 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780807157473 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780807157480 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014011579
- OCLC
- 880499837
- Author
- Houck, Oliver A.
- Title
- Downstream toward home : a book of rivers / Oliver A. Houck.
- Publisher
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239).
- Research Call Number
- IXZ 14-8217