-Poul Anderson, The People Of The Wind IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2011), VI, p. 499.
This is one of my favorite passages in Poul Anderson's works so I need scant pretext to quote it again. See here.
"The armadas clashed off the mouth of the mighty Columma River, on a day when half a gale drove icy rain mingled with sleet out of the west."
-Orion Shall Rise, CHAPTER TWO, 3, p. 36.
"Mighty" is an appropriate adjective for a river but it has to be a really big river, much bigger, I think, than our River Lune. Meanwhile, here, we are housebound as the Lune is swollen by a day of non-stop rain so, after meditating in the attic, I will probably return to blogging.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I also thought of the Amazon as one of those mighty rivers, bigger than the Mississippi. And would be right thinking the Columma River was once called the Columbia River?
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
That would be my guess.
Paul.
It's definitely the Columbia. Which is indeed "mighty"; here's the mouth, and the gorge further inland:
http://columbia.loboviz.com/picture/site.jpg
And the gorge much further inland:
http://www.columbiarivergorge.info/uploads/1/5/8/4/15844548/header_images/1371874085.jpg
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Thanks! Another thing to look up.
Ad astra! Sean
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