Rivers

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Infobase Publishing, 2007 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 201 pages
From Earth's two longest rivers, which flow through African deserts and Amazon jungles, to Siberia's great Yenisei-Angara river system, which drains into the Arctic Ocean, this appealing new book vividly brings the world's great waterways into focus. Stud
 

Contents

Foreword
vii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
Origin of the Landform
xvii
The Nile
xxiv
The Amazon
xl
The Yangtze
lix
The Ob
cxiii
The Congo River
cxxvii
The Amur River
cxlii
The Mackenzie River
clv
Color Insert
1
Glossary
156
Books
161
Magazines
164

The Mississippi
lxxii
Huang Ho
lxxxviii
The Yenisey
xcix
Web Sites
165
Index
167
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