fluviophile

plural fluviophiles

1. rareA lover of rivers.

   This is a book for fluviophiles, which is to say that this is a book for me.

   2020 May 1, David Aaronovitch, “Rivers of Power by Laurence C Smith review — how rivers made history”, in The Times

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   Enough of this lecture on hydrography by a mere fluviophile. Is it because I was born on a river bank — the Potomac — of river valley ancestors — the Hudson — and grew up in Southern California in the halcyon years when the rivers ran wild in spring and spread over the plain; is it because of this conditioning, as well as by fondness for the rivers of Europe — the Seine, Rhone, Var, Arno, Tiber, Tagus, Tyne, and Thames, that I have come to love rivers more than any other form of water?

   1976, Lawrence Clark Powell, “Desert, Mountains, and Rivers”, in From the Heartland: Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond, Flagstaff: Northland Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18

   Now I am a fluviophile, planning a book on Arizona in terms of its river systems.

   1977, Lawrence Clark Powell, “The Phoenix Has Risen—Now What?”, in The Journal of Arizona History, Arizona Historical Society, page 244

   “I work for the state,” I said, thinking I’d tell him I write occasionally for Arizona Highways. He laughed. “The state cuts no ice up here. We’re the Salt River Project.” I tried again. “I’m a fluviophile,” I explained. “You’re a what?” “A fluviophile. A lover of rivers.” “I’ll be damned! That’s a new one.” I played my last card. “I know Rod McMullin,” I said, naming the manager of the Salt River Project.

   1977, Lawrence Clark Powell, Westways, Automobile Club of Southern California, page 66, column 3

   An extreme example of the southern European rivers is Albania’s Semani River (a name perhaps recognized only by the most fervent fluviophile).

   2011, John D. Milliman, Katherine L. Farnsworth, “Runoff, erosion, and delivery to the coastal ocean”, in River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean: A Global Synthesis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section “Sediment: erosion and discharge”, page 44

   A self-confessed ‘fluviophile’, David Aaronovich in the Times found the book ‘instructive and entertaining on the subject of riparian disasters, natural and man-made.’

   2020 July, “Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations and Shapes Our World; Laurence C Smith; Allen Lane, 356pp, £20”, in The Oldie, number 389, section “Review of Books” (issue 52), page 7, column 2

   Synonyms: potamophile