 Book details:April 2007
ISBN 978-1-55365-244-1
Hardcover 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" 160 pages Nature Nature $26.95 CAD
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Greystone BooksDark Waters Dancing to a BreezeA Literary Companion to Rivers and Lakes
Our fascination with water finds full expression in the writings of explorers, adventurers, fly-fishers, natural historians, and even novelists in Dark Waters Dancing to a Breeze. (The title comes from naturalist Henry Walter Bates, writing about the river Tocantins on his way to Amazonia.)
Mark Twain marvels at the teeming humanity on the Ganges; Victor Hugo sings the praises of the Rhine; Henry Stanley, searching for Livingston in Africa, discovers Lake Albert Edward, the source of the Albertine Nile; and Theodore Dreiser gives us his impression of the Thames—plus much more. This surprising collection of twenty pieces lures us away from the security of the shore and plunges us into the beauty and mystery of water on the move.
Co-published with the David Suzuki Foundation |
About the Author Wayne GradyWayne Grady, one of Canada’s finest literary translators and popular science writers, has won three Science in Society awards from the Canadian Science ... more >>Related Books Heading South The Sea |