The rivers that make up the great saucer of the Midwest that is the Mississippi Basin flow in from 31 states and parts of Canada. Where so much water comes together in one place, floods are inevitable. In this combination of history, geography and history, Bruce Hiscock tells of the great flood of 1993 along the upper Mississippi River, and in words and pictures shows what a river basin is, how it works as part of the water cycle, and what happened that spring that made the system of dams and levees fail. Full color.
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The rivers that make up the great saucer of the Midwest that is the Mississippi Basin flow in from 31 states and parts of Canada. Where so much water comes together in one place, floods are inevitable. In this combination of history, geography and history, Bruce Hiscock tells of the great flood of 1993 along the upper Mississippi River, and in words and pictures shows what a river basin is, how it works as part of the water cycle, and what happened that spring that made the system of dams and levees fail. Full color.
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