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Book Review: Holding Back The River By Tyler J. Kelley
| 题名： | Book Review: Holding Back The River By Tyler J. Kelley |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | DAVID MURRAY |
| 摘要： | Tyler Kelley's book Holding Back the River, to be officially published May 4, belongs in the fine tradition of nonfic-tion works like Rising Tide, John Barry's award-winning account of the great Mississippi river flood of 1927, and John McPhee's 1973 The Control of Nature, which includes a famous chapter on efforts to tame the Atchafalaya River. (Barry calls Kelley's book "an insightful and important examination of our policy toward rivers.") Like those previous books, much of this one first appeared as articles in various publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and New Yorker. Like them, it focuses public attention on too-often-neglected issues of waterways management with absorbing and accessible writing. Kelley reports that after a chance encounter with a lockmaster while boating, "I had glimpsed a world, and I couldn't stop thinking about it." The result was six years devoted to a book with a basin-wide approach to the Mississippi River and its main tributaries. Readers of The Waterways Journal will enjoy Kelley's empathetic and detailed accounts of life aboard the last of the old-fashioned wicket boats at Lock and Dams 52 and 53 on the Ohio River, now superseded by the completion of Olmsted Lock and Dam, which Kelley also covers in the section called "Lock." |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 5 |
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