River Stories Sheena Dempsey In the New Mexico badlands

In the New Mexico badlands

Proctor turned it into the largest marble operation in the world

and set against the changing social and sexual mores from the 1970s onward

that dolphins eat 30 pounds of fish and squid each day

River Stories Sheena Dempsey In the New Mexico badlandsFrom the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges and from the venerable Thames to the mighty Mississippi the rivers of the world wind through this collection of stories from the world's great writers. River gods and nymphs frolic in Ovid's mythic telling. The trickster Coyote reroutes a river in a Native American tale. A set of stone steps at the shore of the Ganges bears witness to heartbreak in Rabindranath Tagore's The River Stairs, and Mark Twain floats