Description: Journeys on the world's rivers, from a naturalist's point of view.
Brief description: Mary A. Hood is Professor Emerita of Biology at the University of West Florida. She is the author of The Strangler Fig and Other Tales: Field Notes of a Conservationist.
Review Quotes:
"...this earnest eco-travelogue ... is ... plush with tidbits about these waterways' natural history." -- ForeWord Magazine
"...[a] profound and pensive collection of essays..." -- Booklist
"Part ecotravel journal, part natural history, part plea for the assaulted rivers, RiverTime carries us around the world. There is beauty here, and fascination, and a desperate sense of last chances." -- Kathleen Dean Moore, author of The Pine Island Paradox and coeditor of Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge
"If you want to fall in love with a river, read this book." -- Tom Skerritt, American Rivers
"The author's range of knowledge, her thorough research, and her ability to address the importance of rivers to human and nonhuman life is impressive. She is an environmentalist, a scientist, and a scholar who attends to detail while also writing a fascinating and engaging personal account." -- Sue Walker, coauthor of In the Realm of Rivers: Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw Delta