What the River Carries
Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte
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Judy A Steffen
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Lisa Knopp
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In this informed and lyrical collection of interwoven essays, Lisa Knopp explores the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte rivers she has come to understand and cherish. At the same time, she contemplates how people experience landscape, identifying three primary roles of environmental perception: the insider, the outsider, and the outsider seeking to become an insider. Viewing the waterways through these approaches, she searches for knowledge and meaning.
In the final essay, Knopp undertakes the science of river meanders, consecutive loops of water moving in opposite directions, which form around obstacles but also develop in the absence of them. What initiates the turning that results in a meander remains a mystery. Such is the subtle and interior process of knowing and loving a place. What the River Carries asks listeners to consider their own relationships with landscape and how one can most meaningfully and responsibly dwell on the earth’s surface.
The book is published by University of Missouri Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
Winner of the 2013 Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction
©2012 The Curators of the University of Missouri (P)2022 Redwood Audiobooks