Rivers around the world

Provides information about the Mississippi River, following its course from Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, examining the history of people along the Mississippi, discussing its importance to travel and commerce, and looking at efforts to restore the health of the river.

An exploration of the St. Lawrence River that discusses its geologic history, plants, and animals, and explores how it is used by humans and efforts to protect it.

Explores the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from where they begin in Turkey, travel down through northern Syria and Iraq and join to form the Shatt al Arab before emptying into the Persian Gulf.

An exploration of the Yangtze River that discusses its geologic history, plants, and animals, and explores how it is used by humans and efforts to protect it.

An exploration of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that discusses their geologic histories and natural resources, and explores how they are used by humans and efforts to protect them.

Features the fascinating facts about this far-reaching river and the animals, plant life, and indigenous cultures that live in the surrounding rain forest.

Follows the St. Lawrence River, once a main route of the fur and timber trades. This important commercial waterway forms part of the boundary between Canada and the United States and connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

Readers will take a trip along the mighty Mississippi. Often celebrated in music and literature, its exploration by explorers spurred the growth of a new nation. Today, the Mississippi not only provides transportation for agricultural and industrial goods but also supplies water for millions of people.

Explores the facts about the Ganges, a river sacred to Hindus. Flowing through one of the most densely populated areas in the world, its banks are also the site of shrines, temples, and holy cities, including Varanasi, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

An exploration of the Nile River that discusses its geologic history, plants, and animals, and explores how it is used by humans and efforts to protect it.