There are few places more restful than a riverbank on a fine day, few sights more enticing than a disappearing river bend, few places more intriguing to follow than the tumbled rocks of a creek line. Following the water, to its source or destination, seems hard-wired into our psyche.
Simon Cleary’s latest book, Everything Is Water, takes this fascination to an extreme. Rivers are easy to take f ... (read more)