AMERICA'S WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS

by Mary Ann editor HARRELL, Contributing Photographers (Photographer)

Beautifully bound and photographed book featuring America's Wild and Scenic Rivers.

Genres: Travel, Nature, Geography, Photography, Nonfiction, Reference

199 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1983

Reviews

[Michelle Morrell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Found this in the bookshelf in our rented cabin by the ocean. I like to try to read at least one "native" book that lives in a home when I visit, and I'm a sucker for wilderness and rivers and travelogues.

It's National Geographic so the pictures were gorgeous and the text was bland and soothing. OMG the 80s hair.

[Jonathan Jerden · Rating 5 out of 5]

Covering some 30 of America's most scenic and wild rivers, where the photography is breathtaking and the text is even better, from Connecticut to Arizona, California and Oregon, including the New River, the Bayou Penchant, the Encampment River, the Tuolumne, and my new favorite, the Jedediah Smith River bordering the northwest California coast with Oregon . . . maybe the clearest river yet left in the world. All in all, great fun whether a white-water enthusiast, hiker, horseman, lazy tuber, or just a John Muir naturalist.

[Sadia Islam Sinza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes some books are hanging around the corner of your bookshelf and you are not looking at them for eternity but suddenly you pick up one of them and it gives you a good time!

[Dee Renee Chesnut · Rating 5 out of 5]

Contributing authors are Louis de la Haba, Toni Eugene, Lawrence F. Mosher, and Jennifer C. Urquhart. Contributing photographers are Matt Bradley, Richard A. Cooke III,Bill Curtsinger, and Steve Wall.
This book was published in 1983, and it makes me wonder how many of the proposed federal dam projects went into place during those 28 years. Has the wild and scenic designation protected the rivers or has it taken control away from the landowners whose property adjoined the rivers?

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

America's Wild and Scenic Rivers by the National Geographic Society Special Publications Division, Donald J. Crump, Editor (National Geographic Society 1983) (508.73) is another beautiful publication by the National Geographic Society's Special Publications Division. Wonderful photographs and intriguing text is a hallmark of this series. My rating: 7/10, finished 7/28/15.

[Frank · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good pics. Some good info. Some was, I don't know, uninteresting to me.

[SmarterLilac · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great read, if a little depressing; a lot of these waterways probably aren't so scenic anymore.