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Pioneers of the Fox: Author captures life along the Fox River in the 1850s in her historical fiction novel
The soldiers left some time ago, abandoning the fort not too far from the river. Read More...
From the Nile to the Yangtze: Sailing the world's great rivers
The life-blood of civilizations and natural wonders, rivers are one of the best ways to explore the world's most spectacular scenery. Read More...
DiManno: Too easy to blame Africas the white usurpers
At the end of a kilometre-long shipyard, mounted on steel struts, is a rusty hull forever moored and drydocked just steps from the mighty Congo River. Read More...
Natural remedy author, explorer Chris Kilham visits Mari-Mann
DECATUR - Chris Kilham said it's easier to answer the "What'sthe weirdest thing you've ever eaten?" question than to answer whathe'd name as his favorite place in the world. Read More...
Amazon river dolphins threatened with extinction
The pink dolphins of the Amazon are being threatened with extinction as fishermen kill them to use their flesh as bait. Read More...

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Amazon The River Of Life
The mighty river called Amazon is not an ordinary river. It is an ocean of a river considering its length, width and the volume of flow besides its immense scope for navigability. The river that feeds 40% of South America also forms the biggest drainage basin in the world with no possibility of any bridge over it. The river takes its birth from the womb of the Quebrada Apacheta cliff in the Arequipa at Nevado Mismi amid the snow crested Andean m Read More...
Along the Banks of the Amazon [a Poem]
Along the Northern Amazon— How beautiful when I first behold her!... Unbroken towers of green: untamed Watery seams—; (she has) Exuberant patience with everything…. Some intrusions, here and there, But yet she isn’t defaced by ‘Jungle Madness”: Ego tourism, she can bear. Safe as the endless sky, thicker than an Alligator's hide…; to get to know her, One must UN-humanize their view—at first: To become, confident, this is what: we are of. #1014 Read More...
Dolphins in Rivers - is that True?
While you expect to see dolphins in the ocean, very few people realize that dolphins can be found in fresh water rivers as well. There are four species of dolphins that make their homes in rivers. There is, however, one species of river dolphin that makes it's home in saltwater estuaries and the ocean. River dolphins are not the same dolphins that you would see in the ocean. In fact, river dolphins are only distantly related to sea dolphins. R Read More...