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"Many people spend their happiest days fishing, paddling, or simply sitting by a river's sometimes peaceful, sometimes turbulent flow. Yet no book has ever truly captured the magic of the water; none has fully honoured this majestic feature of our national landscape. Tim Palmer is a rare exception - a photographer and conservationist who is also a gifted writer. With stunning colour photography and inspiring, informative essays based on Palmer's thirty years of exploration, ""Rivers of America"" showcases more than 150 rivers and streams throughout the United States."

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Tim Palmer has been a writer, photographer, conservationist, speaker and consultant on behalf of rivers since 1970. He has written and photographed sixteen books including California Wild, which won the 2004 Ben Franklin Award as the best American book on nature and the environment. The Heart of America: Our Landscape, Our Future won the Independent Publisher's Book Award as the best essay and travel book in 2000. The Columbia won the National Outdoor Book Award in 1998. Yosemite: The Promise of Wildness received the 1997 Director's Award from the Director of the National Park Service for the best book about a national park. Palmer was the recipient of the first Lifetime Achievement Award from American Rivers in 1988. Perception, Inc. honored him as the River Conservationist of the Year in 2000, and in 2002, California's Friends of the River presented him with the Peter Behr Award, their highest honour.

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