Upstream, by contrast, seems to go out of its way to shake up readers.
On a more serious theme, there's The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury.
Five minutes into stoppage time Graeme Mulcahy materialised on the Limerick 45, dragged upstream by a shifting current.
The water, McBride says, is held in massive dams upstream by irrigators, miners and pastoralists, including the huge Cubbie station.
The move is expected to drop water levels upstream by roughly four feet.
The River Whiteadder rushed by beneath the metal flooring, fed upstream by the pleasingly named Blackadder.
Combined with pre-flood releases, this could also deliver sufficient flood mitigation but with less damage to the area upstream by reducing the extent and duration of inundation.
The next fall, after months of composing, Ms. Beglarian plans to head back upstream — by car; she's not crazy — with a small ensemble and perform new works for and with residents of the communities that inspired them.
"I have to travel five hours upstream by boat to fetch water for drinking, washing and cooking," says Vo Thi Than, 60, who cannot afford the prices charged by those who travel down the river selling fresh water from upstream.
For the last two years that agency and several American engineering companies have assisted in new studies of the site at Sandouping in Hubei Province, 1,120 miles upstream by water from the Yangtze's mouth at Shanghai.
The centre of modern Britain's wealth, it has been powerfully protected from the sea by the great Thames Barrier, and against trouble upstream by sturdy cement dykes.
