Environment

Environmental Works

Hall, B.M. and M.R., Second Report on the Water Powers of Georgia (Geological Survey of Georgia, Bulletin No. 16) (Atlanta: The Franklin-Turner Co., 1st ed., 1908). “A systematic study of the water powers of the State requires a knowledge of the drainage system, which are somewhat intricate...Some idea of the diversity of drainage may be had from the statement that there are three springs in northeast Georgia within a stone’s throw of each other that send out their waters to Savannah, Georgia, to Apalachicola, Florida, and to New Orleans, Louisiana.” Hardcover, brown cloth boards, quarto, 418 pp. with index and fourteen photographs. A map of the drainage systems of the state, at p. 17, is missing. HBB price: $20.

Sigurd F. Olson, Listening Point (Knopf, 1st ed., 1958, 6th printing, October, 1970). LOC 58-10971. A lifelong canoe guide in the upper Midwest, Olson (1899-1982) became a nationally-respected educator, author and wilderness advocate who had a hand in creating scores of national parks and protected wild areas. Listening Point was his second book; those who enjoy Aldo Leopold, or Loren Eiseley, may find Olson much to their taste. This book has been well-loved: the dust jacket is worn but the book is in quite good condition. Hardcover, 243 pp. HBB price: $39.95.