Seven Rivers
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Rivers are the great natural arteries that run through our lives.
We have navigated them, dammed them and worshipped at them. From
the ancient ecosystems of Egypt to the sinking cities of Shanghai
and London, what we do with our rivers tells us about who has power
and what we value.Now, when a passion for wild swimming is
flourishing but the Amazon is on fire and some of our major river
systems are dying, it has never been clearer that rivers are
intertwined with humanity at our best and our worst. Seven Rivers
is story of the Nile, Danube, Niger, Mississippi, Ganges, Yangtze
and the Thames. It is a story of imperial frontiers, alluvial gold,
kidnappings, slavery, anticolonialism and creation myths.It is
about those who've lived and died on these rivers and their endless
capacity for invention: their lotus pools and hanging gardens,
their gigantic canal systems and elaborate fishing rituals, their
absolute powers and their sly rebellions. At its heart are the
empire-builders of the Chinese dynasties, Romans and Hindus and
their river gods, the Habsburgs and Ottomans, Mughal emperors, the
people of the Niger from Mali's golden age to today, struggles of
life and death on the Mississippi, and the dethroning of the
British on the rivers of their unruly imperial subjects. This is
the story of us, in seven rivers.
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Orion ,
Vanessa Taylor
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Orion,
Vanessa Taylor
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Slovart
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