Rivers

This title is no longer sold in bookstores. It is sold out. The single book price no longer applies. Sixteen rivers on all continents reveal their sources, their meanders, but also the life of men on their banks, their traditions, their religions, their beliefs, their work. “The book for budding geographers! All in length, Fleuves offers a journey in the arms of the Danube, the Mississippi or the St. Lawrence. The opportunity to remember that no one knows precisely where the source of the Mekong is located, that the Amazon offers 1/5th of the volume of fresh water poured into the oceans, or that the Nile was born from the tears of Isis at the death of Osiris. As instructive to read as it is delightful to leaf through, thanks to the teeming illustrations by Matteo Berton. " (Point)