Best Water Books

1.
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World 4.18 avg rating — 4,916 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water 4.28 avg rating — 11,659 ratings
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River
Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River 4.41 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon 3.90 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water 3.90 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization 3.87 avg rating — 651 ratings
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Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table
Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table 4.19 avg rating — 239 ratings
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century 3.94 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Rough Waters: Our North Pacific Small Fishermen's Battle : A Fishing Family's Perspective
Rough Waters: Our North Pacific Small Fishermen's Battle : A Fishing Family's Perspective 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Last Days of the Mighty Mekong
Last Days of the Mighty Mekong 4.36 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Water Wars: Sharing the Colorado River
Water Wars: Sharing the Colorado River 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink
Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink 3.99 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Encounters with the Archdruid
Encounters with the Archdruid 4.22 avg rating — 6,561 ratings
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Billion-Dollar Fish: The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock
Billion-Dollar Fish: The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock 3.65 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Liquid Assets: A History of New York City's Water System
Liquid Assets: A History of New York City's Water System 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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When the Rivers Run Dry, Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Water-The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
When the Rivers Run Dry, Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Water-The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century 3.98 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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When the World Runs Dry: Earth's Water in Crisis
When the World Runs Dry: Earth's Water in Crisis 3.96 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter 4.28 avg rating — 4,973 ratings
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The Secret Knowledge of Water
The Secret Knowledge of Water 4.29 avg rating — 2,773 ratings
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Water from Stone: Archaeology and Conservation at Florida's Springs (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
Water from Stone: Archaeology and Conservation at Florida's Springs (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism
Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Enough Water?: A Guide to What We Have and How We Use It
Enough Water?: A Guide to What We Have and How We Use It 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land
Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land 3.99 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World 4.14 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Beyond Control: The Mississippi River's New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico
Beyond Control: The Mississippi River's New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico 4.15 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis 4.11 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity
Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity 4.08 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. 4.11 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice: Different Pathways, Common Lessons
Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice: Different Pathways, Common Lessons 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World
Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World 4.21 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
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Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia
Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed
Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever
Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever 3.82 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti 4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow
The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow 4.07 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Florida's Waters
Florida's Waters 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver 3.99 avg rating — 207 ratings
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water 3.94 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
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Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems
Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems
by: J. Ives
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
44.
What the River Reveals: Understanding and Restoring Healthy Watersheds
What the River Reveals: Understanding and Restoring Healthy Watersheds 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
Glaciers: The Politics of Ice 3.56 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Chlorine Revolution: Water Disinfection and the Fight to Save Lives
The Chlorine Revolution: Water Disinfection and the Fight to Save Lives 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator
Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution
The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution 3.54 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks (The Magic School Bus #1)
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks (The Magic School Bus #1) 4.31 avg rating — 6,991 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Water-Quality Assessment of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1992-95 (U.S. Geological Survey Circular, 1157)
Water-Quality Assessment of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1992-95 (U.S. Geological Survey Circular, 1157) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Saving Planet Earth
Saving Planet Earth 3.39 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It 3.81 avg rating — 376 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
The People's Republic of Chemicals 4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Water Dance
Water Dance 4.22 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Studies in Irish Limnology
Studies in Irish Limnology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge
Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge 3.88 avg rating — 518 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by: Dan Fagin
4.09 avg rating — 4,618 ratings
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A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout 3.73 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Marine Science for Kids: Exploring and Protecting Our Watery World, Includes Cool Careers and 21 Activities (66) (For Kids series)
Marine Science for Kids: Exploring and Protecting Our Watery World, Includes Cool Careers and 21 Activities (66) (For Kids series) 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
61.
Water Politics
Water Politics 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Water: Exploring the Blue Planet
Water: Exploring the Blue Planet 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
63.
Hydrologic and Water-Quality Conditions in the Lower Apalachicola--Chattahoochee--Flint and Parts of the Aucilla-Suwannee-Ochlockonee River Basins in Georgia and Adjacent Parts of Florida and Alabama During Drought Conditions, July 2011
Hydrologic and Water-Quality Conditions in the Lower Apalachicola--Chattahoochee--Flint and Parts of the Aucilla-Suwannee-Ochlockonee River Basins in Georgia and Adjacent Parts of Florida and Alabama During Drought Conditions, July 2011 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Drawn to the Deep: The Remarkable Underwater Explorations of Wes Skiles
Drawn to the Deep: The Remarkable Underwater Explorations of Wes Skiles 4.27 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource 3.82 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay 4.14 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It 3.56 avg rating — 890 ratings
68.
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind 3.38 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed
Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed 4.50 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
by: Brad Tyer
3.83 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Water Holds No Scars: Fly Fishing Stories of Rivers & Rejuvenation
The Water Holds No Scars: Fly Fishing Stories of Rivers & Rejuvenation 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Water Lords; Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Industry and Environmental Crisis in Savannah, Georgia
The Water Lords; Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Industry and Environmental Crisis in Savannah, Georgia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles 3.86 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico
Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River 3.93 avg rating — 3,217 ratings
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Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida
Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida 3.62 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Great Lakes Water Wars
The Great Lakes Water Wars 3.96 avg rating — 339 ratings
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The Chippewa: Biography of a Wisconsin Waterway
The Chippewa: Biography of a Wisconsin Waterway 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The RIVERKEEPERS: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right
The RIVERKEEPERS: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right 3.87 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Flint River User's Guide (Georgia River Network Guidebooks)
Flint River User's Guide (Georgia River Network Guidebooks)
by: Joe Cook
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Altamaha: A River and Its Keeper (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Altamaha: A River and Its Keeper (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River
River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River 4.23 avg rating — 84 ratings
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River Notes: The Dance of Herons
River Notes: The Dance of Herons 4.22 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Etowah River User's Guide (Georgia River Network Guidebooks)
Etowah River User's Guide (Georgia River Network Guidebooks)
by: Joe Cook
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
85.
Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River
Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Apalachicola River -- An American Treasure
Apalachicola River -- An American Treasure 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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New Dawn for the Kissimmee River: Orlando to Okeechobee by Kayak
New Dawn for the Kissimmee River: Orlando to Okeechobee by Kayak really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Coal River
Coal River 3.99 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Far Appalachia: Following the New River North
Far Appalachia: Following the New River North 3.77 avg rating — 635 ratings
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The Everglades: River of Grass
The Everglades: River of Grass 4.15 avg rating — 936 ratings
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The Suwannee: Strange Green Land (Rivers of America, #3)
The Suwannee: Strange Green Land (Rivers of America, #3) 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The French Broad (Rivers of America, #50)
The French Broad (Rivers of America, #50) 3.95 avg rating — 149 ratings
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River Song: A Journey down the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers
River Song: A Journey down the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers
by: Joe Cook
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Chattahoochee River User's Guide (Georgia River Network Guidebooks)
Chattahoochee River User's Guide (Georgia River Network Guidebooks)
by: Joe Cook
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Riverkeeper's Guide to the Chattahoochee
The Riverkeeper's Guide to the Chattahoochee 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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River of the Golden Ibis (Florida Sand Dollar Books)
River of the Golden Ibis (Florida Sand Dollar Books) 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History
Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History 3.87 avg rating — 385 ratings
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St. Johns River Guidebook
St. Johns River Guidebook 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Suwannee River Guidebook
Suwannee River Guidebook really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
by: John Lane
4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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