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Up on the river [[electronic resource] /] / by John Madson ; illustrations by Dycie Madson



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Autore: Madson John Visualizza persona
Titolo: Up on the river [[electronic resource] /] / by John Madson ; illustrations by Dycie Madson Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-976-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789418603321
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Serie: Bur oak book.