Topic: On Rivers

Thanks to Julija Šukys for this list on rivers! Add your suggestions in the comments below!

• Joan Didion, “At the Dam”
• Joan Didion, “Holy Water,” The White Album
• Matthew Power’s “Mississippi Drift,” Harper’s
• Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
• Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• Tony Hillerman New Mexico, Rio Grande, and Other Essays
• Edwin Way Teale & Ann Zwinger, A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau’s Rivers
• Mike Barenti, Kayaking Alone
• Tim Cahill, “This Teeming Ark”
• Susan Fox Rogers, My Reach
• Rosemary Mahoney, Down the Nile
• John McPhee, The Control of Nature
• Barry Lopez “The Naturalist”
• Barry Lopez, River Notes
• Ed Abbey, Down the River
• Dinty Moore, “Rivering,” Far Edges of the Fourth Genre
• Dinty Moore, “Ah, Wilderness! Humans, Hawks, and the Search for Ecological Correctness on the Muddy Rio Grande ” Arts & Letters, Issue 2, Fall 1999
• ‪Alice Meynell, “Rushes and Reeds” http://essays.quotidiana.org/meynell/rushes_and_reeds/
• Bill Roorbach “Temple Stream”
• Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put
• David Quammen, “The Same River Twice”
• Kathleen Dean Moore, Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water.
• Selections from At Home On This Earth: Two Centuries of US Women’s Nature Writing
• Susan Fenimore Cooper, “The Hudson River and Its Early Names”
• John Proctor, “Blue Crabs in the Hudson”
• Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker (on the Hudson River)
• John McPhee, “Encounters with the Archdruid III – A River”
• A.J. Verdelle,  “70117”