Up on the river [[electronic resource] /] / by John Madson ; illustrations by Dycie Madson
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| Autore: |
Madson John
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| Titolo: |
Up on the river [[electronic resource] /] / by John Madson ; illustrations by Dycie Madson
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st University of Iowa Press ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 508.77 |
| Soggetto topico: | Canoes and canoeing - Mississippi River |
| Johnboats - Mississippi River | |
| Natural history - Mississippi River | |
| River life - Mississippi River | |
| Stream ecology - Mississippi River | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mississippi River Region History, Local |
| Mississippi River Description and travel | |
| Mississippi River Environmental conditions | |
| Note generali: | Originally published: New York : Nick Lyon Books : Schocken Books, 1985. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Prologue: Between the Saints; 1. The Old River; 2. Shell Game; 3. John L. Grindle and Associates; 4. River Year; 5. A Gathering of River Rats; 6. Deus ex Machina |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Up on the River is John Madson's loving and often hilarious tribute to the people, animal life, and places of the Upper Mississippi. Madson's Upper Mississippi is the part "between the saints," from St. Louis to St. Paul, and where for thirty years he explored the bright waters of the upper reaches of the mighty river itself as well as the tangled multitude of sloughs, cuts, and side channels that wander through its wooded islands and floodplain forests. "Some of my best time on the River has been in the company of game wardens, biologists, commercial |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Up on the river |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-976-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820399003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Bur oak book.