In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Lif Priya Parker For only when we can

For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth

author-illustrator of Frostheart

from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem

seductive guest at their home

--Adam Gopnik

In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Lif Priya Parker For only when we canJames C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Informative, enjoyable, and provocative. . . . Scott's [prose] is dry, clear, and scalding with moral purpose. Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and