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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Armstrong, Christopher
Outros Autores: Nelles, H. V., Evenden, Matthew D.
Formato: Printed Book
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.
Assuntos:
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.
Acesso em linha:Contributor biographical information
Sumário:
  • 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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