Flow East: A Look at Our North Atlantic Rivers (American Wilderness Series, Vol. 3)

This volume of the American Wilderness Series not only extolls the river wilderness areas of the eastern United States but also calls particular attention to the problems of preserving them from pollution and unsupervised industrialization. In a relaxed, unpretentious yet compelling narrative style, the author describes the Indian and lumberjack folklore of Maine’s Allagash and points out why it is now a major success story of river conservation in America. The Potomac River anecdotes include white-water races at Seneca Rocks, a bass fishing trip through the Trough, a natural history adventure in the Paw Paw Bends, a walk through history along the C & O Canal, and green algae at Mount Vernon. The reader is introduced to many other rivers – among them the James and the Susquehanna, the Delaware and the Raritan, the fascinating upper reaches of the Hudson. Though this book does not lay claim to being a thorough history of these rivers or a minute description of the trees, plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, and invertebrates in and along the rivers, John M. Kauffmann does whet your appetite to see them, study and understand them, and finally to appreciate and protect them.