From the Bottom Up: One Man's Crusade to Clean America's Rivers
- ISBN-10
- 1426201001
- ISBN-13
- 9781426201004
- Series
- From the Bottom Up
- Category
- Nonprofit organizations
- Pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-04-10
- Publisher
- National Geographic Books
- Author
- Chad Pregracke
Description
Describes one man's determined, grassroots campaign to clean up the nation's rivers and the surrounding environment, without government funding, by removing garbage, in a volume that also chronicles the author's own life along the Mississippi River.
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