<p>This collection of river literature compiles both classic and cutting-edge essays of twenty-one writers who draw on their wisdom compassion and ecological consciousness to create an original and inspiring collection borne from their unique connection with the natural world.</p><p><em>Tales from the River</em> features original writing by award winning authors including Anthony Birch author of <em>Ghost River</em> winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier&rsquo;s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and cutting-edge prose by Kathleen Dean Moore best known for award-winning books about our cultural and spiritual relation to wet wild places and fresh new voices from across the globe.</p><p>This connection is shared in stories where being so focused on the complexities of the river ahead makes the rest of the world completely disappear and the smoke of a driftwood fire floats in air too thick to carry any sound but the rushing of the river. A canoe is tossed aside and rests akimbo with an aspen branch penetrating its hull white fog flows down a river as if even the air runs to the sea and an Aboriginal &lsquo;slum kid&rsquo; steals a bike so he can visit a river rich in eucalypt trees that &lsquo;old blackfellas&rsquo; had used to make bark canoes scar trees.</p><p>Like Eric Sevareid&#39;s <em>Canoeing with the Cree</em> Ernest Hemingway&#39;s <em>Big Two-Hearted River</em> and Edward Abbey&#39;s <em>Down the River </em>the anthology promises glimpses into history adventure and magic and reminds us that the crystal-clear rivers of our childhoods are the way rivers are meant to be.</p><p>Editors Donna Mulvenna and Margi Prideaux share a passion for wild spaces as portrayed in the anthology&rsquo;s dramatic range of environmental writing which offers an insight into rivers across the world reflected by the varied perspectives of field biologists environmentalists wilderness guides academics writers and naturalists.</p>
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