The river returns : an environmental history of the Bow /

"Rivers have been studied from many perspectives, but too often the relationship between nature and people, between rivers and the cultures that have grown up beside them, have been separated. The River Returns illuminates the ways in which humans, both inadvertently and consciously, have inter...

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Hlavní autor: Armstrong, Christopher
Další autoři: Nelles, H. V., Evenden, Matthew D.
Médium: Printed Book
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.
Témata:
Human ecology > Bow River (Alta.) > History.
Environnement > Alberta > Bow, Rivière.
Écologie humaine > Alberta > Bow, Rivière > Histoire.
Bow River (Alta.) > Environmental conditions.
Bow River (Alta.) > History.
Bow River Valley (Alta.) > History.
Bow, Rivière (Alb.) > Histoire.
Bow, Vallée de la (Alb.) > Histoire.
On-line přístup:Contributor biographical information
Obsah:
  • Discovery
  • Homeland and margin
  • Home on the range and river
  • The wooden river
  • Power and flow
  • Watering a dry country
  • The snitary imperative
  • The fishing river
  • Overflow
  • building Banff
  • Greening Alberta
  • Water powers
  • Who has seen the river?

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