A Reverence for Rivers is now an audiobook on Audible!
With engaging narration by the author, this audiobook draws the listener into the stories of streams and rivers created by Dr. Kurt Fausch, award winning river scientist and author.
Travel with the author as he recounts the environmental history, Indigenous worldviews, and scientific discoveries of rivers, and the fish and other animals that depend on them, in regions ranging from Michigan and the West, to Saskatchewan and northern Japan.
Learn about key ethical issues such as which rivers we choose to protect, our fundamental rights to water, how to promote resilience of rivers, and finally, our ethical relationship to these places on which we rely for much more than simply water to drink and grow crops, and fish to catch.
For the Love of Rivers is also now an audiobook on Audible
In For the Love of Rivers, Kurt Fausch draws readers across the reflective surface of streams to view what is beneath, ponder how they work, and consider what is essential about streams and rivers for us as humans.
In this beautiful memoir, Fausch explains the underlying science connecting these aquatic ecosystems and their fishes to streamside forests and the organisms found there—including humans.
For the Love of Rivers introduces readers to the life and work of Shigeru Nakano, a pioneering Japanese river ecologist who died in a tragic field accident in Baja. Fausch joins Japanese and American colleagues to continue Nakano’s research legacy, learn everything they can about the effects humans have on rivers and their intricate links with riparian zones, and share this knowledge with others.
More than a book about stream ecology, For the Love of Rivers is a celebration of the interconnectedness of life. Fausch ponders the larger questions of why rivers are important to humans, why it is in our nature to want to be near them, and what we can do to ensure the future of these essential ecosystems.
For the Love of Rivers won the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for adult non-fiction the year it was published.