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Water-Related Books of Note Recommended by lawyers in Holland & Hart's Water Law Practice Group
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul Beyond the 100th Meridian by Wallace Stegner Brown-on-Brown by Manuel Ramos Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner The Earth is Enough by Harry Middleton English Creek by Ivan Doig Flush by Carl Hiassen (for young teenagers) The Girl of The Sea of Cortez by Peter Benchley The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian, and the entire Aubrey-Maturin Series The Meadow by Jim Galvan The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey Mystic River by Dennis Lehane The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Peace Like a River by Leif Enger The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean The River King by Alice Hoffman The River of Doubt by Candice Millard The River Why by David James Duncan A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold The Secret Knowledge of Water by Craig Childs Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau What You See in Clear Water by Geoffrey O'Gara Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg
Water-Related Songs
10 Degrees and Getting Colder
Gordon Lightfoot
Across The Great Divide
Nanci Griffith
And It Stoned Me
Van Morrison
Blue Bayou
Linda Ronstadt
Box of Rain
The Grateful Dead
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Paul Simon
Christian Island (Georgian Bay)
Gordon Lightfoot
Cripple Creek
Leo Kottke
Down By The River
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Down To The River To Pray
Emmylou Harris
Down To The River To Pray
Soggy Bottom Boys
Early Morning Rain
Bob Dylan
Early Morning Rain
Gordon Lightfoot
Fins
Jimmy Buffett
Fire And Rain
James Taylor
Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Bob Dylan
Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Creedence Clearwater Revival
La Mer
Kevin Kline
Let It Rain
Eric Clapton
Many Rivers to Cross
Jimmy Cliff
The Moldau
Bedrich Smetana
Muddy Water
Keb' Mo'
Rainmaker
Keb' Mo'
Ripple
Grateful Dead
River
Joni Mitchell
Rivers of Babylon
The Melodians
Shenandoah
Bruce Springsteen
Sloop John B
Beach Boys
Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello
in G Major, BWV 1007: Prélude
Yo-Yo Ma
The Tide is High
Atomic Kitten
Under the Sea
The Little Mermaid
Up On Cripple Creek
The Band
Water Music
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite No. 2, HV 349
in D Major: Alla Hornpipe