Natural Lives, Modern Times: People and Places of the Delaware River

By Bruce Stutz

Book Overview

Based on an intensive year-long study of the river and its surrounding regions, this is an engrossing portrait of the river and the people who live along its banks. Along with the stories of the people is the natural history of the river, a river and an ecosystem under seige. Author River Walk tour down the Delaware.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517582252
• ISBN13: 9780517582251
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Fine journalism

In what appears to be, sadly, Bruce Stutz's only book, Stutz introduces the reader to those who scratch noble livings out of a river that yields not much more than a few shad each spring. He journeys south from Hancock, NY, to Philadelphia, PA, to present the lives of riparian denizens fighting to maintain their source of income against our (federal and state) government's struggles to protect our beautiful, valuable, and fragile Delaware River Valley. Neither side in Stutz's book comes across as "right" or "wrong" because, well, both sides care deeply about this stunning river. The one lack in "Natural Lives, Modern Times" is the lack of photos or illustrations, beyond some attractive woodcuts heading each chapter.