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Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
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Author:
Laurence C. Smith
Publisher:
Little, Brown Spark
Date:
April 21, 2020
Rivers of Power, geographer Laurence C. Smith explores the timeless yet underappreciated relationship between rivers and civilization as we know it.
What The Reviewers Say
...[an] important new book.
Geography can be history and history geography—and sometimes the most obvious things are overlooked. Laurence C. Smith’s Rivers of Power endeavours to make us see beneath the surfaces of arterial waters and consider them as carriers of civilisation and arbiters of destinies.
...[a] brave attempt to write a history of the world’s rivers from more than 4bn years ago until the present day.
This is a book for fluviophiles.
