The Traveller's Bookshelf: three books about rivers

A River Sutra by Gita Mehta — a novel of stories gathered along the Narmada. Read it for the way a river holds many voices.

Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River by Sudipta Sen — a history of the Ganga from its sources to the sea. Read it to see a river as a shaper of history.

Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain — a classic of river writing from 1883. Read it for the humour and the sense of a working river.