Seven Rivers History of sport Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs

Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs was many things: A Space expert at NASA

using books to navigate the challenges and complexities of this world and many others

From outspoken women cast as witches to anti-authority figures denounced as criminals

ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780008299750

For the fortieth anniversary of the D-Day landings

Seven Rivers History of sport Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs'Seven Rivers' is the story of the Nile, Danube, Niger Mississippi, Ganges, Yangtze and the Thames. It is a story of imperial frontiers, alluvial gold, kidnappings, slavery, de colonialism, creation myths and the killing of rivers. It is about those who've lived and died on these rivers and their endless capacity for invention: their harnessing of oases and aquifers, their lotus pools and hanging gardens, their gigantic canal systems and elaborate