All About Great Rivers of the World

In "All About Great Rivers of the World", Anne Terry White reports on five of the world's mightiest streams -- the Nile, the Amazon, the Yangtze, the Volga, and the Mississippi. Vividly she tells how these rivers have developed through the ages and how each one has affected the land and people along its banks. These are the thrilling stories of channels that change & shift, of people whose way of life depends upon the rivers, of crocodiles & hippopotamuses basking in the jungle-swamps of the Nile, of howler monkeys screaming in the rain forest along the Amazon, and Chinese river-men struggling to get their fragile boats through the deadly rapids of the Yangtze. Full-page illustrated maps and dramatic drawings by Kurt Wiese will excite the interest of every reader.