Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay -There are said to be only four places in the world where two major rivers - with entirely different watersheds - converge at their mouths to form a common delta: the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta in California, the Tigris-Euphrates delta in Iraq, the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh, and Merrymeeting Bay in Maine. This last one is the least famed of the four, even to people living within its immediate vicinity.
Frank Burroughs has lived and knocked around on Merrymeeting Bay for three decades, gaining a familiarity with its natural and human history--with its birds, fish, and mammals, and with the local people who know it best. His wonderfully fluid essays explore the ecology, environment, and activities in this unusual bay, as Heather Perry's beautiful photographs show us the details.
