The Pull of the River

Matt Gaw is a writer, journalist and naturalist who lives in Bury St Edmunds. His work has been published in the Guardian, the Telegraph and the Times. He works with the Suffolk Wildlife Trust, edits Suffolk Wildlife, currently writes a monthly country diary for the Suffolk Magazine and is a director of the Suffolk Festival of Ideas. This is his first book.

Contents; Prologue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix; 1. A secret world.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1; 2. Escape routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29; 3. Abuse and misuse.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63; 4. Spirit of the river . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91; 5. A world transformed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111; 6. Tales of adventure.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137; 7. River seekers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165; 8. Alone on the water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189; 9. Shaped by the river. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211; 10. Into the wild.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231; Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259; Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263