Contents -- Introduction -- Concerning Rivers - Izaak Walton -- A Flood - John James Audubon -- My Visit to Niagara - Nathanial Hawthorne -- The Lake of Salt - Charles Darwin -- The Tocantins and Cameta - Henry Walter Bates -- Ganges, the Great Purifier - Mark Twain -- The Source of the Albertine Nile - Henry Morton Stanley -- Speckled Trout - John Burroughs -- Lake Ontario - Rupert Brooke -- The Thames - Theodore Dreiser -- The St. Lawrence - Henry Beston -- Falling Water - Donald Culross Peattie -- The Fraser - Bruce Hutchinson -- The Big Blackfoot - Norman Maclean -- Awash in the Baleh - Redmond O'Hanlon -- The River - Roderick Haig-Brown -- The Hawkesbury - Kate Grenville -- We Start Up the Great Missouri - William Least Heat-Moon -- Rivertops - Ted Williams -- The Tree and the Trout - Kevin Van Tighem -- Adoration of a Hose - David James Duncan -- Bank Deposits - Trevor Herriot -- Superior - Jill Frayne -- Farewell to the Nineteenth Century - John McPhee -- Acknowledgments.