What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte

by Lisa Knopp

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826219748
• ISBN13: 9780826219749
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"