This is a story line that extends from 1947 to 50 million years ago. The author travels backward in time from the river’s end point to its source as she tells us the story of this mighty river.
The one factor that felt the most effective was the way the chapters were constructed. The travel part of it is perhaps the background of a series of chapters that cover history, archaeology, politics and the havoc humans unleash on nature. While I did call this a travelogue in my earlier sentence, it would be narrowing this book down to almost nothing which is an insult to the book. This is the story of one such river that could have boasted of some of the earliest civilizations being its offspring, had it a tongue ! But the river’s lack of communication skills is solved with this amazing travelogue by Alice Albinia. The much touted civilizations of legend all had their roots planted firmly near rivers or lakes and oceans. It was then only natural that the first forms of human habitation took root near large water bodies. Most creation myths and the science behind evolution also nod their heads in assent about these seemingly god like powers of this confluence of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. This piece of text above from a religious scripture is but a reverberation of an undeniable fact that life began in water and that is sustained by water. He is created of water pouring forth. ~ Qur’an
So let man consider of what he is created:
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