Rivers of the World: A Social, Geographical and Environmental Sourcebook

This “sourcebook” comprises a collection of entries or mini‐essays on 192 rivers from across the globe. These range from 250 to just over 2,000 words in length and are all the work of Penn, a past teacher of geography at several US universities and author of Encyclopedia of Geographical Features in World History, also from ABC‐Clio. The volume aims to provide “comprehensive treatment of the major rivers of the world in their physical, cultural and environmental settings” (p. xiii). All the expected rivers are present, such as the Amazon, Danube, Ganges, Mississippi, Nile, Rhine and Yangtze, together with a...