Provides information about the surroundings, course, and importance of ten of the world's longest rivers, including the Nile, the Mississippi, the Yenisei, and the Paran?.
Follows a river from its source as a mountain stream formed from melting snow, as it rushes over rocks and through valleys to the busy city, and finally to its end, where it joins the sea.
A young girl sees a sidewheeler run aground and over many years describes how the river makes the remains of the wreck into an island and then washes it away again. Based on a true story.
Sidney the frog and Sherry the snail follow their brook all the way down to the sea, in search of all the different noises it makes as it rushes along.
In 1875, a young Inupiat boy travels the length of the Kobuk River with his family, from its source in the mountains of northern Alaska to Kotzebue Sound, where they join others for an annual trade fair.