Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image

Mancall, Peter C. {edited}

ISBN 10: 0801431050 / ISBN 13: 9780801431050

Published by Cornell Univ Pr, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., 1996

About this Item

Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 005881

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801431050
• ISBN 13: 9780801431050
• Binding: Cloth Over Boards
• Illustrator: Various
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Remainder

About this title

Synopsis

For everyone who has listened to river's song or floated along its surface or played on its banks, here is a book of images and voices which does justice to the beauty and diversity of rivers. The selection range from Samuel Sewall's mournful praise of the River Merrymak to John Wesley Powell's triumphant narrative of exploring the Colorado River, from Walt Whitman's ode on crossing Brooklyn Ferry to Oscar Hammerstein's melodic tribute to Ol'Man River. More than fifty descriptions, meditations, and songs, with brief introductory notes, are balanced by sixty illustrations, including the elegant landscape paintings of Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Church and the haunting photographs of Ansel Adams.

Synopsis

A collection of literary and historical writing and illustrations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century about America's great waterways ranges from Samuel Sewell's praise of the River Merrymak to Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." UP.