River of Mountains

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River of Mountains is written by Peter Lourie and published by Syracuse University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0815603150 (ISBN 10) and 9780815603153 (ISBN 13).

Lourie's account of his trip is a fresh look at one of America's great and complex waterways, one of the few, in fact, that still contains its historical and biological species of fish. It is also the longest inland estuary in the world. Henry Hudson called it the "great river of the mountains." Nowadays, too often the Hudson is stereotyped as a ruined, polluted industrial river. its glorious past is compared to its present neglect.