tski's Full Review: Luna B. Leopold - A View of the River Books
The book A View of the River by Luna B. Leopold is about geomorphology and fluvial hydrology. Leopold covers the basics of river channeling, river measurements, channel systems, meanders and bars, distribution of discharge in time and space, different rivers of the world, flow variability and floods, relationships between channel and discharge, hydraulic geometry, sediment load, drainage networks, energy utilization, and other topics along with field evidence to back her thoughts up. Leopold uses graphs and tables to show how much each system works when they are put to the test in rivers, and she does a good job describing them and how they show the information. Leopold also uses a lot of mathematical equations to explain channel discharges, hydraulics, drainage rates, and many other topics throughout the book. Leopold’s main topic of the book was river channels. She goes on to talk about channeling rivers, and joining them through channeling can help agriculture throughout different parts of the world, but she say a down side to river channeling is the capacity of the channels aren't as good as it is in the actual river itself.
I found this book interesting at times but mostly it was pretty lengthy and hard to digest. This book didn’t really keep my attention, I often found myself day dreaming about other subjects. This book gave good well-backed information, but in a very boring way. Overall I thought this book was well written.
I would recommend this book to people who are interested in rivers and dams, but also to people who live on or near rivers, because it talks about flood patterns and possible flood damages. This is a book is geared more towards adults and not written as a children’s’ book. It is a long book, and can be tough to follow at times.
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