Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times

    This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who would like to know more about the river's history and the forces that shape as well as threaten it today. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth's history. 
    Like the Mississippi itself, Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book's focus is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it also includes information about the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota and about the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river's mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an understanding of the basic geology underlying the river's landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.

• Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History
• Life on the Mississippi (Wordsworth Classics)
• Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History
• A River and Its City
• California Rivers and Streams: The Conflict Between Fluvial Process and Land Use
• The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina
• The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina
• Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
• A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
• The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi