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A Dictionary of Rivers of the World: Names, Locations, Lengths, and Mouths (Two Volume Set)

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Pages:840
ISBN:1-4955-0798-X
978-1-4955-0798-4
Price:$499.95
Dr. Larry Miller has produced a compilation and Dictionary on the rivers of the world. It narrows the listings to the locations of the rivers, lengths, and the places that are located on the river itself.

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“But in reality, their importance is disproportionate to this apparent lack of acknowledgement. Consider just a few of the many uses to which they are, or have been, put: a source of drinking water for man and beast; recreation; transportation; and hydroelectric power. For all their potential for destructive force, rivers – kept reasonably free of pollution – serve an indefinitely greater purpose for positive exploitation.”
From the Compiler’s Statement

Table of Contents

Compiler’s Statement

How to Use this book

Main body of entries

Appendix I: Abbreviations used in this book

Appendix II: Name-explanations of selected U.S. rivers

Appendix III: The word ‘river’ in selected languages

Appendix IV: Twenty longest rivers of the world

Appendix V: Acknowledgements

Appendix VI: Glossary