Your Local Area: Rivers

By (author) Thomson, Ruth
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An exciting series packed with information and activities to help to you explore and discover your local area.
Description
This book will help you think about and look around the rivers your local area. Find out what they can tell you about how people live and work and how they travel and spend their leisure time. Discover the clues that will tell you how people lived in the past. Think about the changes that could benefit rivers in your local area.
Table of contents
What is a river? A river''s course Shaping the land Plants and birds Where are rivers? Follow a river River crossings Rivers in the past Canals Work River fun Dirty rivers More things to do Glossary Talking points Index
Biographical note
Ruth Thomson is an award-winning educational author (with an MA in Museum and Gallery learning) , who specialises in writing books on art and history. Her art books include Grisly & Gruesome, Saints and Looking at Paintings for the National Gallery, London, a short biography of Georgia O''Keeffe and several hands-on art packs for Tate galleries. She has also co-written Posters and Propaganda in Wartime, published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum. Her history books include a series about Victorian childhood and books about Plains Indians and Aztecs. Ruth''s interest in Terezín was sparked during research for an educational pack on Holocaust art for the London Gallery of Jewish Art. The gallery owns a powerful series of prints by Leo Haas, one of the artists featured in the book, and Ruth became intrigued to find out more about the place that had inspired them. As well as writing educational books, Ruth travels widely, collecting recycled artefacts, which she has shown in bespoke exhibitions at major British museums and galleries for the past 7 years. In her spare time, Ruth enjoys long-distance walking, stone carving and reading modern American literature.
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An exciting series packed with information and activities to help to you explore and discover your local area.