River Literature
This 1884 great American novel by Mark Twain details the life of a young boy and his raft trip down the Mississippi River.
What is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
This camping toilet system used on river rafting trips got its nickname from the indentations left on a person's backside after sitting on a box.
What is the groover?
This poker game includes a feature called "The River."
What is Texas Hold-'em?
These aquatic insects make their own homes with tiny pebbles and hide inside them like a turtle in its shell.
What are caddisflies?
This is the world's tallest waterfall.
What is Angel Falls?
The Emerald Mile, an action-packed and informative book by Kevin Fedarko, describes the Grand Canyon speed run led by this individual.
Who is Kenton Grua?
The roots of stand-up-paddle boarding, or SUPing, can be traced back to the 18th century in what location?
What is Hawaii?
When you are beset with problems permitting a stream restoration project, a regulator may use this cliché to convey their utter lack of sympathy.
What is "cry me a river"?
This endangered native is the Colorado state fish.
What is the greenback cutthroat trout?
This US city has carried on the unfortunate tradition of dyeing its main river green on St Patrick's Day since 1962.
What is Chicago?
This novel tells the story of Gus Orvison, a kid who leaves home and moves to a run-down coastal cabin in search of his "perfect schedule," which consists of 14 and a half hours of fishing per day.
What is The River Why?
This technique, used by fly fishers, involves letting the fly drift naturally downstream, mimicking the movement of insects on the water’s surface.
What is dead drifting?
The Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric dam in the world by volume, is located on this river.
What is the Yangtze River in China?
This world river is home to the pink river dolphin.
What is the Amazon River?
Europe's longest river, central to the history and culture of Russia, flows through the capital city of Moscow before emptying into the Caspian Sea.
What is the Volga River?
This 2015 science fiction thriller novel about a protagonist who sabotages and destroys the water supplies of rival states is based on a short story, The Tamarisk Hunter, which was first featured in High Country News.
What is the Water Knife?
This sport, which had its Olympic debut in Paris this year, starts with a 15 foot drop, and proceeds as an all out contact sport between four incredible athletes, clearly has its origins in real unpredictable rivers, but no strainers or true dangers were part of the Olympic course.
What is kayak cross?
This shallow depression is man-made and can only hold stormwater for 72 hours.
What is a detention pond? (NOT REtention!)
Adorable and smaller than a house cat, this member of the weasel family is a ferocious riverine predator.
What is a mink?
This river, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau through Southeast Asia, is vital to the livelihoods of millions in countries like Vietnam and Cambodia.
What is the Mekong River?
This epic poem by Lord Byron, first published in 1818, features a romanticized depiction of the Rhine River in Germany.
What is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage?
This useful small boat, traditionally crafted by Native Americans and frontiersmen, is made by covering a skeletal wooden frame with a buffalo hide.
What is a Bull Boat?
These frozen features cause the Red River in North Dakota to flood as it flows northward into Canada.
What are ice jams?
The tallest of all North American avian species, this endangered bird can still be seen along the South Platte River in Nebraska.
What is the whooping crane?
This beer shares its name with the river that runs through Amsterdam.
What is Amstel?