Books by Kenneth R. Olson

“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book—a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.”— Mark TwainLife on the Mississippi (1883)

Kenneth R. Olson is Professor Emeritus of Soil Science in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA. He is an internationally recognized soil scientist who has published extensively on the great rivers of the world, the environmental impacts of warfare on soils, soil conservation and management, soil erosion and degradation, soil productivity, soil characterization and interpretation, and methodologies for measuring long-term changes in soil organic carbon.