Contents

PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION

INTRODUCTION

1: Slackwater

2: Better Off Underwater

3: Machine River

4: The Biggest Thing on Earth

5: The Flood

6: Ditches from Heaven

7: A Noble Way to Use a River

8: Wild and Scenic Atomic River

9: Born with No Hips

10: Slackwater II

11: The River Game

EPILOGUE

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX