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The Water Remembers
The Water Remembers by Amy Bowers Cordalis tells the story of her Indigenous family’s fight against the US and California governments and powerful corporations to save the Klamath River, its salmon runs, and themselves. It’s an inspiring multigenerational memoir of perseverance in the face of injustice, betrayal, violence and genocide. Continue reading
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Tagged book review, nonfiction, indigenous, salmon, rivers, dams, dam removal, restoration, Klamath River, Amy Bowers Cordalis, Yurok
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Undammed
Most books about the environment or climate change catalog the disastrous state of our world but dangle a morsel of hope at the end. Undammed, a book about dam removal in the United States, describes real progress, genuine restoration, and actual healing of the land and its people. Continue reading
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Tagged book review, climate change, dam removal, dams, nonfiction, restoration, rivers, salmon
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There Are Rivers in the Sky
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak tells the story of three people connected by two rivers and one raindrop. Arthur Smyth, born into squalor on the banks of the polluted Thames River in Victorian England, discovers the … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, british museum, fiction, gilgamesh, rivers, thames, tigris, yazidi
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Nonfiction November 2025 Week 4: Diverse Perspectives
Week 4 of Nonfiction November is all about Diverse Perspectives, about seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. Or in my case, through the “eyes” of a river. Continue reading
Is a River Alive?
In this fabulously written book, Robert Macfarlane journeys to rivers in three very different landscapes — the cloud-forests of Ecuador, the city of Chennai, India, and the wilderness of northern Quebec — seeking answers to the question are rivers alive and what would it mean if they were? Continue reading
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Tagged book review, environmental law, nonfiction, rights, rights of nature, rivers, robert macfarlane
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