Rivers of America: The Housatonic
by Chard Powers Smith
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Lyons Press, 2019. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2019 Lyons Press softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The Rivers of America Series is a landmark series of books on American rivers, for the most part written by literary figures rather than historians. The series spanned three publishers and thirty-seven years. Known as the "Great River" to early colonists, The Housatonic etches a 115-mile-long valley from its headwaters near Pittsfield, Mass. to its harbor in Long Island Sound between Bridgeport and New Haven. A region "apart from the common restlessness of America," it has given life to native American tribes, colonists, tobacco farmers, and refugees from the cities seeking creative, academic, or interpretive peace. Rivers of America:The Housatonic tells the story of this famous waterway, since its emergence from the last ice age, to native settlement, colonization by Europeans, and more recent invasion by "tribes of miscellaneous writers, artists, and musicians.".
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- Title
- Rivers of America: The Housatonic
- Author
- Chard Powers Smith
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1493040162
- ISBN 13
- 9781493040162
- Publisher
- Lyons Press
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- Water, America, Rivers, Rivers of America, Housatonic, Massachusetts, Long Island Sound, Puritan river,
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