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A River with a City Problem
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Margaret Cook
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-22 - Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

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When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hop
A River with a City Problem
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: Margaret Cook
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-03 - Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

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When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hop
Red River Rising
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Ashley Shelby
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

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The gripping, true-life story of one of the most destructive floods in U.S. history and its effect on one city and its citizens.
Goodbye to a River
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: John Graves
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-10 - Publisher: Vintage

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In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen wa
River Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Ian Tyrrell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-01 - Publisher: NewSouth

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In the beginning, there was the river — before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered t