Taming the flood : a history and natural history of rivers and wetlands
Purseglove, Jeremy1988
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Winner of the 1989 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize, this book is both a celebration of life in and around the water and an eloquent plea to water authorities, farmers and the British Government to protect that life.
Main title:
Taming the flood : a history and natural history of rivers and wetlands / Jeremy Purseglove.
Author:
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press in association with Channel Four, 1988 (1989 [printing])
Collation:
viii,307p.,[16]p. of plates : ill(some col.), maps ; 25cm.
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Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780192860910 (pbk)
Dewey class:
333.9180941333.918
Local class:
333.918
Language:
English
BRN:
1389407