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Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water

by Kathleen Dean Moore · 1995

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In these twenty elegant essays, a philosopher and amateur naturalist meanders along the rivers and streams of the american West-and muses on love, loss, aging, motherhood, happiness, the art of poking around, and other important matters. "A smart, compassionate, and wise meditation on living in place" (Terry Tempest Williams).

Subject
philosophybiographytravel
Themes
natureenvironment
Setting
1990sUSA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages
Form
essaysshort stories

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