River Planet : Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis.

Intro
Contents
Sourced Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Part 1: Rivers in Deep Time
1 Rivers and Geological Time
2 The First Drop of Rain on the Nascent Earth
3 How Plants Bent and Split Rivers
Part 2: Our Modern Rivers
4 Breaking Pangea: The Ancestral Rivers of Africa
5 Hot and Cold: The River Histories of Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica
6 Young and Restless: The Evolving Rivers of Asia
7 The Conflicted Rivers of Europe
8 The Reversing Rivers of South America
9 Canyons and Cataracts in North America
10 A Canadian Amazon
Part 3: How the Ice Age Changed Rivers
11 Frozen Out: Northern Rivers Sculpted by Ice
12 Megafloods and Noah's Ark
13 Rivers Drowned by the Sea
Part 4: Humans and Rivers
14 From Stone Age Streams to River Civilizations
15 The Lost Saraswati River of the Indian Subcontinent
16 Confucian Engineers on the Yellow River of China
Part 5: Engineered Rivers
17 Dead and Wounded Rivers
18 Collapsing and Closing Dams
19 Between the Dams: An Elegy for the Saskatchewan River
20 Without Spoiling the Land: Rivers and Agriculture
21 London's Buried Rivers
22 Restored Rivers
Epilogue
Glossary
Further Reading
Endnotes
Index.