Hudson River

Lourie, Peter

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ISBN 10: 1878093010 ISBN 13: 9781878093011

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press, 1992

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About the Author:

Peter Lourie is the author of many books for young people, including Arctic Thaw: The People of the Whale in a Changing Climate and Hidden World of the Aztec. He lives in Weybridge, Vermont.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-5-- Lourie recounts a 315-mile canoe journey from the headwaters of the Hudson to New York City. Each page is liberally illustrated with good quality full-color photographs; those of the locks at the Champlain canal are particularly effective due to the unusually low vantage point of the canoe. Only one map is included, and readers must continually flip back to it to monitor the author's position and progress. The information on the history of logging on the river is interesting, but in general, the photographs provide more impact than the rather lifeless text. For an overall sense of the vastness and variety of the river, Thomas Locker's Where the River Begins (Dial, 1984) is more compelling but has no information. George Ancona's excellent Riverkeeper (Macmillan, 1990) focuses mostly on the job of the riverkeeper and his monitoring of pollution. Lourie's effort fills the gap in geography and sports collections. --Kate Hegarty Bouman, Susquehanna Valley Junior High School, Conklin, NY
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