River Reader

With The River Reader the Lyons Press inaugurates a new series of nature anthologies in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, dedicated to bringing readers of the finest nature writing from the past and present. Each book will be devoted to a single environmental subject and composed of both classic selections and contemporary writings. In this first volume, we celebrate writings about rivers from twenty-two diverse writers including: John James Audubon, William Bartram, Rick Bass, Joseph Conrad, Annie Dillard, Ernest Hemingway, Meriwether Lewis, Barry Lopez, Harry Middleton, Kathleen Dean More, John Wesley Powell, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain.All share their visions of rivers throughout the world, from the raging Amazon to the mile-wide Mississippi. (6 X 9, 320 pages)