I need more recommendations for non-fiction on water, especially rivers. But not ones that focus on colonial history (positively) or the economy tied to rivers, ones more focused on ecology.
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@idzie I would be very careful with Sheldrake. His father is all over the files and lost his scientist position decades ago because of bogus pseudoscience he didnt want to let go propagating. Merlin himself approached this person late 2018 for funding. He seems to me as one of the many persons, who trade scientific caution for the better selling storyline as long as it suits his carreer goals. Seems to me, that the apple didnt fell far from the tree. #funghi #mycology #mushtodon #sporespondence
@idzie If you want to get inspired by a more spiritual approach to ecologies, that are not diluted by speculation and western ego & seeks the cooperation with the scientific method to ensure reliable knowledge, then I can recommend Robin Kimmerer and other representents of the school "traditional ecological knowledge". You can search her academic work for other authors aswell.
@pumkin I wasn't actually asking for a complete stranger to tell me what I should and shouldn't read! Both your comments are incredibly condescending, you could have simply said "hey that guy shows up in the Epstein files you might want to look into him before reading" and that would have been fine and appreciated. Instead you took a very different tone, and additionally tried to tell me what I SHOULD be reading instead, which is rude and patronizing. I'd suggest reconsidering how you approach strangers on the internet.
@idzie Thats exactly what Ive written & then I gave a recommendation, just as you asked. Im sorry my words triggered this impression. I just wanted to communicate in a transparent manner as a non-native speaker. You words are actually quite aggressive towards me & I dont know what I could have done better. I never told you what to read, I just gave some reason to be catious.
@idzie Thats exactly what Ive written & then I gave a recommendation, just as you asked. Im sorry my words triggered this impression. I just wanted to communicate in a transparent manner as a non-native speaker. You words are actually quite aggressive towards me & I dont know what I could have done better.
I need more recommendations for non-fiction on water, especially rivers. But not ones that focus on colonial history (positively) or the economy tied to rivers, ones more focused on ecology.
@idzie perhaps The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer https://www.ethicalbooksearch.com/books/m/is:9781472977373-is:9781038635006/the-flow-amy-jane-beer
@idzie Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer is focused on mosses but they are so damp and rainforesty that there is quite a bit of water info as well.
I liked How To Read Water by Tristan Gooley, which has a section on rivers. He writes more from a nature signs perspective than ecology, like things to notice about rivers.
@beandreams thank you! :)
@idzie not exactly what you asked for but this is a thing I know exists.
https://www.sfei.org/projects/napa-valley-historical-ecology-atlas#toc-publications
@idzie (for river ecology) Iʼm eyeing is The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life by Amy Bowers Cordalis and a book I loved: Stronghold: One Man’s Quest to Save the World’s Wild Salmon By Tucker Malarkey also Salmon in the Trees
Life in Alaska's Tongass Rain Forest
by Amy Gulick #Salmon #River #Ecology #Bookstodon
@ScoterD thank you!!
@idzie if you’re interested in books on individual rivers A Clear Flowing Yarra by Harry Saddler is great
@joannaholman thanks, I'll look it up!
@idzie What about "Is a River Alive?" by Robert McFarlane. Travelled the world talking to people who know about rivers.
@cybervegan already on my list if you scroll up haha
@idzie Fair enough. Have not read it myself, but my wife has recently, and talked about it a lot.
@idzie currently part way through Dispersals. It’s really good
@joannaholman that's good to hear!