Limnology (inland waters)

Part travelogue, part history, and part environmental treatise, Mekong The Occluding River is above all else an urgent warning that factors such as pollution, ecological devastation, and the depletion of natural resources are threatening the very existence of the Mekong River.

The Thames is justifiably known as 'London's river'.

Opened on 17 July 1761, the canal has a special place in history as the first to be built in Britain without following an existing watercourse, and so became a model for those that followed.

John Cooper takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the towpath of the Grand Union Canal, which meanders through what is arguably one of the most picturesque stretches of inland waterway in the county.

For some the River Trent is synonymous with a northern Staffordshire city, for others the hub of the ceramics industry, perhaps the heart of the brewing world or a famous bridge near a famous cricket ground.

From a water-laden bog in the Cambrian Mountains of Wales to the mighty Bristol Channel, the River Severn carves its way through some of the most picturesque and varied landscapes in the country.

The history of East Shropshire has had a global impact, with Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale acknowledged as the 'Cradle of the Industrial Revolution'.

The Clyde is a river of global importance - it was once the world's pre-eminent ship-building centre and a major trade hub for the British Empire.

The Forth packs more interesting historical and geographical attractions into its relatively short length than any other river in Britain.

This book seeks to explore the River Tyne as it runs from source to sea, using old and contemporary photographs together with postcards to explore the communities, settlements and industries that have existed along its course.

The Manchester Ship Canal was a huge engineering achievement.

Many thousands of route miles of canal and navigation once used to criss-cross England, serving collieries, iron mines, steelworks, towns and villages.

The River Don in South Yorkshire flows through a changing landscape.

This book is a study of waterways infrastructure and investigates through images and maps how the present midland network of canal and river navigations was put together.

The Windrush is the largest of the Cotswold rivers.

Since the development of photography in the middle of the last century, the picture of our past provided by the written chronicle, the museum artefact or by failing memory has been augmented by the most vivid and immediate relic of former times, the photograph.

A safe route from London to Bristol was long a dream of traders and ship owners.

Crossing the Cotswolds and widely regarded as one of the most attractive locations for an historic canal, the Thames & Severn Canal is also one of the most interesting to trace and enjoy on the ground today.

Built between 1775 and 1779, the Stroudwater Navigation stretched from Framilode to Wallbridge in Stroud where it later connected with the Thames & Severn Canal to form a link between the River Severn and the River Thames.

The story of the River Tees is one that combines tales of Roman forts, mythical beings and manufacturing heartlands.

The River Cherwell carves its way through a broad, deep valley that runs north to south, starting a few miles above the market town of Banbury and continuing down as far as the university city of Oxford, bending and twisting, meeting up sometimes with the Oxford Canal and parting company again as they reach the city outskirts.

North East Canals Through Time follows on from previous titles by specialist author and canal historian Ray Shill, notably North West Canals Through Time: Manchester, Irwell & the Peaks.

Northern Canals Through Time follows on from the previous title by well-known author Ray Shill, North West Canals Through Time: Manchester, Irwell & the Peaks, as a study of waterway infrastructure, in this case focusing particularly on Lancaster, Ulverston, Carlisle, and the Pennine Waterways from west to east, including from Nelson to Leeds on the Leeds & Liverpool, the canal from Rochdale to Sowerby Bridge on the Rochdale and the Huddersfield (Narrow) from Ashton to Huddersfield.

The River Mimram rises from a spring to the north-west of Whitwell in North Hertfordshire and makes its confluence with the River Lea near Horn's Hill.

'Water is Life and Heaven's Gift.

The Wyrley & Essington Canal began as an independent waterway, carrying coal from Essington and Wyrley Bank to Wolverhampton.

Always known as the Wilts & Berks Canal, never Wiltshire and Berkshire, the W&B has been derelict and abandoned for over a century, but plans exist to restore the waterway.

The River Medway travels through the highly populated areas of Gillingham, Chatham, Maidstone and Tonbridge, among a number of other smaller towns and villages.

The scenic beauty of the canals' route through the Golden Valley provided professionals and amateur photographers of the 1870-1930 period with a plethora of subjects.

This volume completes a trilogy of albums dedicated to capturing as much as possible of the evidence from historic photographs of two famous canals which together linked the rivers Severn and Thames.

Flowing between Devon and Cornwall, the beauty of the River Tamar is ever changing.

London's hidden - or lost - rivers are a source of fascination.

The Cromford Canal ran 14.

The canal was completed in 1789 at a cost of GBP250,000.

Flowing 220 miles from source to the sea, the Severn is Britain's longest river.

At 220 miles in length, the Severn is Britain's longest river.

Bordering Devon and Cornwall, the River Tamar stretches through some of the most beautiful and scenic parts of the south west.

Below the northern face of Cleeve Hill, a spring brings water to the surface.

The sport of angling has a rich tradition in the North East of England.

The Gloucester & Sharpness Canal - An Illustrated History draws on contemporary sources and throws new light on the construction, operation and maintenance of the canal.

Enigmatic and mysterious are the two words most often applied to the earthworks known as the dykes, built somewhere after the end of the Roman period in Britain.

THE RIVER DOVE in Derbyshire has been attracting visitors for centuries.

The River Camel, for much of its length, is arguably in the fi rst division of the most beautiful and interesting waterways in the West Country.

The 50-mile stretch of the River Tamar forms a unique county boundary between the counties of Devon and Cornwall.

THE RIVER WELLAND has been a main waterway through South Lincolnshire for centuries, flowing through Stamford, Market Deeping, Deeping St James, Crowland, Spalding and finally out to the sea at Fosdyke.

The Stroudwater Navigation was a canal linking Stroud to the Severn Estuary near Gloucester.

Many people remember with great fondness the pleasure steamers that plied the River Thames in the years after the end of the Second World War.

The third of John Neale's books looking at Cornish rivers takes us down the Fowey, from its source on Bodmin Moor to its estuary at Fowey itself.

Covering an area from Liverpool to London, Canal Crimes explores the whole range of criminal activity on Britain's Waterways during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Profusely illustrated in full colour.